Meta’s Horizon Worlds has launched a brand new characteristic referred to as quests, which permits customers to finish in-game missions and earn digital rewards similar to clothes whereas exploring a VR social community. The social media large hopes this new replace will enhance consumer engagement and retention by giving customers a motive to return to a extra enjoyable and interactive platform.
The Meta will regularly roll out this characteristic to extra Horizon Worlds gamers over the approaching weeks. For now, the duties are solely accessible for trial group customers within the new world of Large Mini Paddle Golf. Within the expertise, gamers use paddles to hit the ball in the best course to get the bottom rating and compete towards one another.
Introducing quests into Meta’s Horizon Worlds can encourage extra consumer engagement, which has been a problem for the platform. Presently, many Horizon Worlds experiences have low participant counts; final October, the variety of month-to-month lively customers was lower than 200,000.
Quests can encourage gamers to spend extra time on the platform, discover completely different worlds and full duties. When the platform expands to net and cell, presumably this yr, the quests might make the Horizon Worlds expertise extra interesting to a wider viewers.
Meta just lately unveiled plans to deliver 20 further Horizon experiences created by third-party studios. The corporate can be trying to make the Metaverse platform accessible to customers aged 13-17 to increase Horizon Worlds’ consumer base. However senators are attempting to cease Meta from doing so, saying the platform shouldn’t be appropriate for younger folks and contains “commercials for poisonous merchandise, information assortment, bodily well being points and offensive behaviour”.
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