

In August, Grimes called Zuckerberg "under-qualified" to run the metaverse and slammed his avatar as "bad art. People have also taken to social media to mock early images of Meta's graphics. Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the tech company avoids using the word "metaverse" because the average person doesn't know what it means. The Snapchat CEO is not the only one to question Zuckerberg's vision for Meta. 3000 31st St, Santa Monica, California, 90405, United States. SNAP is part of the Mobile App Development industry, and located in California, United States. Though, Snap has said in the past that it might eventually pivot to selling products in the metaverse as well. Evan Spiegel has been working as a Chief Executive Officer at SNAP for 6 years. "Our fundamental bet is that people actually love the real world: they want to be together in person with their friends." "One of the big overarching concepts people have is that a lot of those tools are designed to replace reality," Spiegel told The Guardian.

Earlier this year, Spiegel said in an interview with The Guardian that his company refuses to use the word "metaverse," dubbing it "ambiguous and hypothetical." Though, Snap has said in the past that it might eventually pivot to selling products in the metaverse as well.It wasn't the first time the Snap founder has dissed the metaverse. It wasn't the first time the Snap founder has dissed the metaverse. On Tuesday, Spiegel said that there is "a clear fork in the road between VR and AR," calling AR "more immersive." Last year, Snap unveiled its first pair of AR glasses. While VR takes the individual into a completely digitally recreated landscape, AR combines computer-generated content with the real world - meaning that in AR digital content is superimposed onto an individual's view of the real world.

The Snap founder has chosen to focus his company on expanding into augmented reality versus a virtual reality.
