At the moment only i adults can subscribe to Horizon Worlds Of Meta, but according to the Wall Street Journal that could change very, very soon. It seems that Meta plans to open his own virtual reality social experience to younger players, of age between 13 and 17 years oldalready starting from march 2023.
Meta opens Horizon Worlds to teenagers?
The Journal says it has read information in a note entitled “Horizon 2023 Objectives and Strategy,” in which Gabriel AulMeta’s vice president of VR experience, outlines the goals for the first half of 2023.
In the note, Aul he allegedly wrote that these younger users are the “true digital citizens of the metaverse” and that Meta needs to make sure they do serve them for the success of Horizon. Meta’s spokesperson, Joe Osbornehe has declared:
“Teens are already spending time in a variety of VR experiences on Quest, and the company wants to make sure we can provide them with a great experience in Horizon Worlds as well, with age-appropriate tools and protections.”
Osborn did not say what the experience will offer in terms of protection of young users. In 2021, The Journal reported that the company’s researchers found Instagram “harmful to a sizeable proportion” of adolescents, especially girls. Meta then paused work on an Instagram for children and has since launched a set of safety features for teenagers. It also automatically restricted sensitive or panic-inducing content for new users of under the age of 16.
Meta’s goals
In addition to welcoming Horizon to younger teens, Meta aims to grow monthly active users of the game a 500,000 and 200,000 within the first half of the year. Perhaps even more important, right now, is aiming for a 20% retention rate. As it turns out, Horizon had a high retention rate in January dell’11%which means that only one in nine users he returned to the experience the following month. Meta hopes to achieve these goals by improving the reliability not performance of the service, also eliminating various bugs which can compromise the enjoyment of users.
The company aims to release 20 new Horizon experiences made by third-party studios to try to attract more people. Also, apparently, hopes to make the VR game Very more accessible throwing a mobile web version e desktops by June.