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Meta isn't shutting down its VR metaverse

Meta's VR Metaverse takes one more step into the grave

On its community forums, Meta confirmed that Horizon Worlds, the flagship "hanging out and doing work meetings in VR" app for Quest headsets, will no longer be available in VR after June 15.

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Meta shuts down its metaverse – and then decides not to

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Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

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Meta backtracks on VR exit, promises continued Horizon Worlds support

Just days after saying the VR version of Horizon Worlds would be shut down, the company now says it will continue supporting it—for the “foreseeable future.”

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Meta's Metaverse App For VR Is Staying Open, Barely

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Meta to shut down Horizon Worlds VR platform by June 2026: Metaverse plan faces major setback

The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.

The metaverse failed without a rulebook

The keynote featured a bonkers video of Zuckerberg jumping between various CGI-rendered depictions of the metaverse in virtual reality. He visited a spaceship where the company’s executives were playing poker,

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Mark Zuckerberg scales back metaverse dreams after $80 billion in losses

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are scaling back their metaverse ambitions after accumulating over $80 billion in losses

Meta is killing off the metaverse as it pivots to AI

The shutdown of Horizon Worlds is the clearest signal yet that the metaverse pivot has been quietly unwound as AI takes center stage

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Meta Spent Years Chasing the Metaverse, but Now It’s Making a Big Pivot. Here Are 5 Leadership Lessons Behind That Shift

After betting heavily on the metaverse—and spending billions building it—Meta recently pivoted. Here are leadership lessons from their move.