"Meta is making improvements to its Roblox-like social platform Horizon Worlds, with the biggest upgrades being the introduction of a new game engine with better graphics as well as the Meta Horizon Studio to help creators to make custom in-game experiences. Meta Horizon Studio is an editor that lets creators make VR worlds. Creators can already use generative AI tools to create things like textures and audio, and Meta will bring an AI assistant to the editor later this year to help creators with development."
"In a demo I saw at Connect 2025, a developer had a conversation with an AI chatbot to request changes like a new environment and tweaks to the personality of an AI-driven NPC. Powering Meta's new metaverse environments is the Horizon Engine, which "powers better graphics, faster performance, and more advanced" VR worlds, including "much greater concurrency," according to Meta. Horizon Worlds hasn't caught on broadly, even though it's expanded from VR to mobile."
Meta is upgrading Horizon Worlds with a new Horizon Engine and Meta Horizon Studio to help creators build custom in-game experiences. Meta Horizon Studio is an editor that lets creators make VR worlds and already supports generative AI tools to create textures and audio. Meta plans to add an AI assistant to the editor later this year to assist with development. A demo at Connect 2025 showed a developer conversing with an AI chatbot to request a new environment and tweaks to an AI-driven NPC's personality. The Horizon Engine powers better graphics, faster performance, more advanced VR worlds, and much greater concurrency. Horizon Worlds has expanded to mobile but has not gained broad adoption, so Meta opened a $50 million creators fund to attract makers.
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