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Meta actually added a useful feature to Horizon Worlds — and some goofy ones

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Meta’s newest update to Horizon Worlds, its 3D social network, adds some useful changes, but while reading the v133 patch notes, I chuckled more than once because of things Meta probably didn’t intend to be funny.

Arguably the biggest addition is a new “time spent” feature. The dashboard shows you how much time you’ve put into Horizon Worlds over seven days and how that time is divided between playing in VR and on web / mobile.

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A screenshot of Horizon Worlds’ “time spent” dashboard — but I don’t know anyone who plays for four hours per week.

We should be cognizant of how much time we’re spending staring at screens. But given Meta has been struggling to keep Horizon Worlds users, how many people…

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