Meta is improving its Roblox-like social platform Horizon Worlds, with the most important upgrades being the introduction of a brand new sport engine with higher graphics in addition to the Meta Horizon Studio to assist creators to make customized in-game experiences.
Meta Horizon Studio is an editor that lets creators make VR worlds. Creators can already use generative AI instruments to create issues like textures and audio, and Meta will convey an AI assistant to the editor later this yr to assist creators with growth. In a demo I noticed at Join 2025, a developer had a dialog with an AI chatbot to request modifications like a brand new surroundings and tweaks to the character of an AI-driven NPC.
Powering Meta’s new metaverse environments is the Horizon Engine, which “powers higher graphics, quicker efficiency, and extra superior” VR worlds, together with “a lot higher concurrency,” based on Meta.
Horizon Worlds hasn’t caught on broadly, although it’s expanded from VR to mobile. However Meta is making an attempt to get extra creators on board with making issues for the metaverse, together with opening up a $50 million creators fund earlier this year.