Zuckerberg backtracks after Horizon Worlds backlash, claims Meta is 'capable of much more'

After a week of being thrown with tomatoes in the internet town square over the low-quality graphics of Meta'sHorizon Worlds, Mark Zuckerberg has emerged from the slush to clear the air. Zuck claims that Meta can create pseudo- realistic worlds in the metaverse despite the WiiU-like avatars and low-res virtual landmarks we've seen so far.

Zuck announced the release of Meta's platform in Spain and France on his Facebook page. The post was accompanied by a picture of Zuck's giant-eyedavatar in the game. The Eiffel Tower and Barcelona's Baslica de la Sagrada Famlia are on the flattest plane of grass behind him.

The internet agreed that this was an embarrassment given the $10 billion Meta poured into the metaverse.

Zuck took to social media to say that the post was published "very quickly" in celebration and that there is more to come.

He included two photos, one of his "yassified" avatar and the other of a Roman-esque ruin landscape, in order to prove it.

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I don't know what the ruins are supposed to show us, and I'm not sure if the graphics that come standard with most modern video games are up to date. It is a welcome upgrade. We'll keep an eye out.