Meta is making the metaverse look better

Meta is making improvements to its Roblox-like societal level Horizon Worlds, with the biggest upgrades being the instauration of a caller crippled motor with amended graphics arsenic good arsenic the Meta Horizon Studio to assistance creators to marque customized in-game experiences.

Meta Horizon Studio is an exertion that lets creators marque VR worlds. Creators tin already usage generative AI tools to make things similar textures and audio, and Meta volition bring an AI adjunct to the exertion aboriginal this twelvemonth to assistance creators with development. In a demo I saw astatine Connect 2025, a developer had a speech with an AI chatbot to petition changes similar a caller situation and tweaks to the property of an AI-driven NPC.

Powering Meta’s caller metaverse environments is the Horizon Engine, which “powers amended graphics, faster performance, and much advanced” VR worlds, including “much greater concurrency,” according to Meta.

Horizon Worlds hasn’t caught connected broadly, adjacent though it’s expanded from VR to mobile. But Meta is trying to get much creators connected committee with making things for the metaverse, including opening up a $50 cardinal creators money earlier this year.