Facebook's social VR service renamed to 'Horizon Worlds' and launched a 1.1 billion yen fund to support creators
Facebook has entered the VR field
Expanding Horizon: New Funding to Support Creators --About Facebook
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/expanding-horizon-new-funding-to-support-creators/
Expanding Horizon: New Funding to Support Creators
https://www.oculus.com/blog/expanding-horizon-new-funding-to-support-creators/
Facebook Rebrands Social VR Platform As Horizon Worlds
https://uploadvr.com/facebook-horizon-changes/
Facebook's new $ 10 million fund for VR creators is hopefully just the beginning --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/7/22714876/facebook-horizon-worlds-creators-fund-social-vr-platform-metaverse
Introduced in 2019 by Facebook, Facebook Horizon is a VR world where users can create land and avatar clothes, paintings, movies and games that can be played internally. Users can not only play with people all over the world in the VR space, but also play an active role as creators in the VR space.
Facebook announces VR world 'Facebook Horizon' that users can play freely in the world created by themselves --GIGAZINE
Facebook Horizon released a registration-based beta version in August 2020, but at the time of writing the article, the open beta version has not been released yet. Facebook and Oculus have announced that they will rename Facebook Horizon to 'Horizon Worlds', removing the company name.
Facebook also said, 'When we released the invitation-only beta of Horizon in 2020, we started building creator-friendly spaces in VR with top-notch social world building tools. We've been building these in VR for the past year. We've developed tools and improved them based on creator feedback. These early creators are growing the social experience on the Horizon platform and we're amazed at the imagination and creativity they show. ' Stated.
You can see some of the experiences created by users who participated in the beta version of Horizon Worlds by watching the following movie.
Horizon Worlds-YouTube
Facebook has announced that it will launch a $ 10 million creator fund to encourage more people to help build Horizon Worlds. From 2022, the funds of the fund will be distributed to creators in the following multiple ways.
◆ 1: Community competition
Facebook will hold a competition for creators to build the world within Horizon Worlds, and will offer prizes of up to $ 10,000 to the 1st to 3rd place winners. Details of the contest will be announced shortly.
◆ 2: Creator training program
Creator Accelerator Program, a creator development program that provides creators with diverse backgrounds who want to build something within Horizon Worlds with the opportunity to acquire the skills and knowledge to succeed in a professional environment. Will be provided. The training program is said to start in 2022, and recruitment of participants is scheduled to begin in November 2021.
◆ 3: Funding for developers
If you're a developer, studio, or creator and want funding to create a Horizon Worlds experience on a particular theme, you can also partner directly with Facebook to get funding.
According to VR-related media UploadVR, Facebook plans to extend the test release of Horizon Worlds to more people for the rest of 2021. Sharma also hopes for the future, with users hosting ticket-based events within Horizon Worlds, trading digital products and items, and providing a subscription-based experience. It is said that there is.
In recent years, Facebook has been focusing on VR, and in 2021 it released the open beta version of the virtual conference room 'Horizon Workrooms', and 5.5 billion yen for the development of the virtual space 'Metaverse' where people can work and shop. Has announced that it will invest.
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