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El escepticismo por el Metaverse alimenta el desplome de las acciones de Meta

By Ninian Carter

October 10, 2022 - Las acciones de Meta se han desplomado 58% desde su lanzamiento, victimas de contratiempos de publicidad, defectos de software, la competencia de TikTok entre los usuarios más jóvenes y la turbulencia general del mercado.

Mark Zuckerberg is set to unveil Meta’s new “Project Cambria” virtual reality headset at a developer conference this week – hardware designed to allow users to enter its $10 billion metaverse and the “Horizon Worlds” virtual reality social platform.

The problem is, Horizon Worlds remains buggy and unpopular, even among its own staff. The issues are so bad that Meta has put into place a “quality lockdown” for the rest of 2022, while it attempts to fix the app.

Add to this the public relations disaster which was Zuckerberg’s creepy metaverse avatar unveiling and subsequently rushed update, and it’s not been a great first year for Meta.

The company’s share price has crashed from $316 on the day Facebook was renamed Meta, to around $133 a share now – a catastrophic plummet of 58%.

The stakes are clearly very high for Meta, which is
facing stiff competition from TikTok (drawing away millions of younger users) and the massive financial hit it took when Apple made privacy changes to its iOS system that allowed users to block ad tracking – Meta makes 98% of its revenue from advertising.

For Meta to succeed, it will have to persuade software developers that it’s worth their while to build for the metaverse and that there’s an audience there waiting to be serviced by it.

Presently that audience is not there, and given the raft of bad reviews and publicity mistakes made so far, it’s not going to be any time soon.

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PUBLISHED: 10/10/2022; STORY: Graphic News
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