Its technology giant Meta Facebook and Instagram launched the platform in Spain Horizon WorldsAiming to be the company’s first step towards building the long-awaited ‘metaverse’, a space for virtual reality that they will connect to play and socialize with others.

This was announced by Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and managing director of the largest social networks empire, in a post where he shared an image of his avatar – his virtual character on the platform – along with copies of it, but with little success, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Starting this Wednesday, Horizon Worlds will be available to users over the age of 18 in both Spain and France, making them the first European countries where Meta’s new social platform is already made in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. , where they accumulate more 300,000 monthly users.

Horizon Worlds is just one of the virtual reality applications Meta launched to begin designing what’s called the ‘metaverse’, a trendy concept in the tech industry that reflects the desire to create an immersive internet in which the user is immersed as if immersed in it. video game. The company is a part of this field parallel reality Where more and more people are spending their time – chatting, watching virtual concerts or holding business meetings – and their money is still a distant dream.

Last October, Zuckerberg announced that his parent company Facebook, Instagram, What’s up?Messenger and Oculus andRenamed Meta, among others. The move served to mark the return of the company by taking its social media stake into virtual reality, while also trying to silence the scandal caused by the revelations that the platform fueled hatred and harmed the mental health of minors.