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We toured Facebook Horizon, a social VR playground entering beta with lots of unknowns – CNET
The game-filled space aims to be Facebook’s metaverse, and it’s being monitored for safety, too. Who will join in?

Facebook is building its own cartoon-avatar metaverse for VR, called Horizon. It’s in invite-only beta starting today.
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We’re standing in an escape room space, where one of us is trying to guide a block into a target and communicate to the other person, standing behind a wall at a control panel. CNET colleague Joan Solsman and I are in this world, but haven’t seen each other in person for months. It’s weird, fun stuff, the sort of thing maybe you did in escape rooms in person once. In …
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