“I don’t think it’s a good product,” Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said.
reported Meta has already cut user growth goals for its main metaverse platform, Horizon Worlds, due to sagging early results.Critics have accused Zuckerberg of neglecting Meta’s core social media business even as the company struggles through a major stock slump. Shares are down more than 60% since January during a broader tech sector slowdown.
Luckey did not completely write off Meta’s initiative, noting that early iterations of his Oculus Rift headset were “awful” but eventually improved.“It’s hard for me to really wholeheartedly say, ‘Oh, Horizon Worlds, what an absolute disaster,’ because I look at it and I see something that’s being developed in the open, developed in public,” Luckey said. “It is terrible today, but it could be amazing in the future. I think Mark will put in the money to do that.
“Will they stumble along the way? Yeah, sure. Will they waste money on initiatives that don’t really make sense? Will they add things to their project car that they later hack off and replace with something else? Yeah, sure,” Luckey added.Luckey founded military contractor Anduril Technologies after leaving Facebook in 2017. His departure followed reports that he donated $10,000 to a pro-Donald Trump internet campaign during the 2016 presidential campaign.