A few months after Meta’s Horizon Worlds social VR app entered public beta, Meta began exhibiting metaspace art experiences made with its own metaverse tools. A project created by VR sculptor Gabe Gault is the first in a series of cultural and artistic experiences described by Meta that will roll out within Horizon Worlds.
Gault’s work, titled “I Am a Man,” is a 3D immersive sculpture that explores black history in the 1960s. According to Meta, the project is a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, I Am a Man activist and Tuskegee aviator.
While Meta has already produced gaming experiences in Horizon Worlds, this is the company’s first foray into art and culture for its Metaverse. A press release states that its “Metaverse Culture Series” will provide historically excluded communities with an easier entry point into future tech realms and ensure that cultures and diverse perspectives are woven into the fabric of the metaverse.
The campaign, which began on Feb. 22 and continues through Black History Month, did not indicate a specific end date. This project was created by Gault at Horizon Worlds and it has many creative tools.
According to Meta, roundtable discussions were held with artists and some members of the media within the company’s work-focused Horizon Workrooms app to discuss the process. Meta seems to follow this approach in other projects as well. The company’s most recent Foo Fighters VR concert also featured a very limited fan-focused meet and greet at Horizon Workrooms, where conversations may be easier to organize than in the more liberal Worlds app.