Horizon Workrooms: Facebook travels down a well-worn path to failure

Facebook introduced Horizon Workrooms, its take on the metaverse and so far it seems to have had a very hard landing. It’s never a good sign when a technology introduction gets more attention in the mainstream press than in the tech press. Worse, the press is having a field day with Facebook’s latest scheme to find relevancy for VR within social media. Our first impulse was to ignore the introduction. We’re way behind on more important technology introductions and the whole idea looks like an elaboration on an old theme. We are covering this because (A) it’s possible we’re being opinionated jerks,