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  "textContent": "When Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta in late 2021, he called the metaverse \"the next frontier\" and predicted it would \"reach a billion people.\" He envisioned \"hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce.\" Horizon Worlds, Meta's VR social network, was supposed to be the foundation. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Zuckerberg predicted a billion users. Horizon Worlds never topped a few hundred thousand appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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