Meta Horizon Worlds v130 Release Notes: World Chat Rolls Out Widely
Meta Horizon Worlds v130 is here! Thanks to all who attended Meta Connect 2023 last week. This week, we’re rolling out access to world chat to everyone and working to resolve a bug that impacted some people’s follower/following counts on their Horizon profile.
Meta Connect 2023 Recap
We had a blast celebrating Connect 2023 with our Meta Horizon creators and community! Thank you to everyone who joined us to experience the Connect keynote live in Worlds. If you missed it, head to the Meta Connect 2023 event to check out the replay and redeem exclusive virtual rewards until October 5! You can also watch the keynote on the Meta Facebook page.
World Chat Is Now Available: Connecting Communities in Real Time
Earlier this summer, we began testing a new way to meet, coordinate, and interact in Worlds with a text-based communication experience called world chat. We know that people want to engage in real time with their community, so in addition to voice, world chat is now available for everyone starting this week.
How It Works
To access world chat, look at the wristband on your avatar’s left wrist and select the 
icon. People will be able to connect with or follow others participating in the chat (e.g., message) by clicking the person’s name to view their profile and inviting them to connect. People will also be able to @mention others in world chat who are in the same world session. World chat offers tools to make it easy to meet and interact with others—like quick replies so you can connect without having to type long messages.
What’s Next
We’re committed to building experiences that help people connect with their communities and will continue exploring new ways to make it easier to connect and have fun with each other. Please note that world chat may not be available to some people at times as we iterate and improve the experience.
Quality of Life Improvements
Creators
- You can now send callback events from the Spawn Asset with Callback codeblock to players as well as objects.
Highlighted Bug Fixes
Here are some highlighted bug fixes for this week’s release.
General
- We fixed a bug that showed some people had 0 followers and 0 following on their profile page. We’re continuing to restore followers and following counts for everyone affected.
Select Known Issues
Here are some of the known issues the Worlds team is currently investigating.
General
- Music gizmos are periodically getting stuck playing. Sounds/music won’t stop playing, even by scripting or opening the Property panel to toggle the play/stop button, until you fully stop the world.
- Workaround: If you restart the world through the Console, the option for play/stop is visible and works as expected.
