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Zuckerberg predicted a billion users. Horizon Worlds never topped a few hundred thousand

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 20, 2026
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Wax figure of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Harmony Video Production / Shutterstock.com)

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 suppo…

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