Why did the metaverse fail?

Meta is quietly scaling back Horizon Worlds after burning nearly $80B since 2020… with only a few hundred thousand active users. But the metaverse failure isn’t exclusive to Meta. In the smart city and utility industry, the tech never really took off. In this episode, we analyse why.
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