When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a first look at his company’s multibillion-dollar virtual reality metaverse gamble, Horizon Worlds, the internet mockingly ridiculed the platform’s graphics—to the point that Zuckerberg soon after issued a wounded apologystating that Horizon was “capable of so much more” and “improving rapidly”.

It seems that even the Meta employees working to make those improvements don’t hold the platform in the highest regard either.

According to internal company memos obtained by the edgeMeta’s Horizon Worlds team has been repeatedly reprimanded by department leadership for rarely using the platform, despite repeated orders to do so both at work and at home. Other memos reveal that the Horizon Worlds team was instructed to stay in a…