Facebook Employees Seem Completely Confused by the Metaverse

It's a big week for the man who turned Facebook into a company.

After a few rough quarters, a dismal public reaction to a glimpse at the founder'sHorizon Worlds metaverse, and an allegedly imminent round of mass internal layoffs, the company is finally bearing down on the release of its Metaquest 3 and Metaquest Pro virtual reality and augmented reality headsets Zuck is dependent on his company's legacy on his metaverse vision.

The overlord of Facebook is thrilled about this product release. According to The New York Times, there is one group that may not be true.

The New York Times reported last week that Meta has had a hard time getting its employees on its platform. In response to new mandates that weekly meetings be held in the metaverse, and execs have even turned to threats to actively monitor their game play, some company staffers had to scramble to buy headsets. It sounds like it's fun.

"Everyone in this organization should make it their mission to fall in love withHorizon Worlds," read a September commandment from metaverse VP Vishal Shah. You should get in there. In both internal and public builds, organize times so you can get to know our community better.

Shah has something to say. It's hard to get the public excited about a piece tech if those building it don't own a headset.

The problem isn't just that the employees don't like Zuck. In an anonymous NYT survey of 1,000 Meta employees, conducted on the popular Silicon Valley app Blind, only 58 percent said they understood the strategy he was taking to get there.

According to a report, some employees have labelled metaverse projects with the acronym MMH, which stands for Make Mark Happy, while the former technology chief of the company stated during an August interview that the company spent billions of dollars. The head of the division resigned.

Whether his metamates get it or not, Zuck appears hellbent on making his "North Star" a reality.

A Meta spoke to the NYT and said that being a cynic is easy. We believe the metaverse is the future of computing and so we are building it.

The New York Times reported on skepticism, confusion, and frustration in the Metaverse Struggles.

There's more on Zucko troubles.