Confirming recent rumors, Meta has revealed that it's shutting down Horizon Worlds, its online multiplayer virtual reality (VR) game. After March 21st, 2026, the Meta Quest version of Horizon Worlds ...

Following the downsizing of its Reality Labs division, Meta has announced plans to cut off its immersive Horizon Worlds social gaming platform from the company’s Quest virtual-reality headsets, ...

Meta is shutting down Horizon Worlds, the company's virtual reality social network, on June 15. The platform, originally designed for Quest VR headsets, will still be available on a mobile app. The ...

UPDATE (March 19, 2026 @ 3:00 p.m. PT): Apparently, Meta is not separating the VR element from Horizon Worlds after all. In an Instagram Q&A, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth spoke to a concerned fan of ...

The move reflects Meta’s strategy to prioritise scale through mobile rather than niche VR social adoption Reality Labs is “right-sizing” spending while continuing to back VR hardware development The ...

Meta’s major investment in Metaverse has not been a great success, and recently more than 1,000 people working on the project were laid off. The latest news is that the social VR platform Horizon ...

Meta announced its annual Connect developer conference is returning this year on September 17th-18th. While it’s probably still too early to speculate, there are a few things we’re hoping to hear ...

Meta has launched a $50 million Creator Fund for developers building games for its online virtual space Horizon Worlds. Meta said it will make payouts each month to devs based on factors like ...

Shadi Nayyer joined Meta in a new role focused on metaverse creator and developer relationships. Nayyer's role overseeing ecosystem growth rolls up into the Reality Labs content organization. Before ...