Meta employees working on the metaverse aren’t lining up to use its VR headsets. According to workers who spoke to Bloomberg, the headsets are ‘uncomfortable’ to use and ‘glitchy.’
One of Meta’s core goals is to facilitate the “metaverse,” where people can hang out and work in a digital world while wearing VR headsets, but many of its employees aren’t using them , Bloomberg reports.
According to 11 current and former employees who spoke on condition of anonymity with Bloomberg, teams across the company, including its VR section, have not been regularly using them for work. As noted in the report, Meta provides headsets to employees if they’ve signed up for an internal program to test new features before the public.
A revealing nugget from the report is that Meta’s President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg’s team briefly “tried” experimental VR meetings before abandoning it because staffers found it “uncomfortable and glitchy.
