Overview
- After June 15, Horizon Worlds will be available only on phones and the web through the Meta Horizon app and a browser.
- Meta is decommissioning VR features this month, including Horizon Central, and will remove Hyperscapes’ social component on March 24.
- Mark Zuckerberg has prioritized artificial intelligence, with plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers to compete with OpenAI and Google.
- The pullback follows weak user adoption and recurring multi‑billion‑dollar operating losses at Reality Labs, along with earlier studio closures and more than 1,000 job cuts.
- Meta says it will keep developing hardware, confirming two new VR headsets and continuing smart‑glasses work, while refocusing Horizon as a mobile‑first product using the Horizon Engine and AI tools to challenge platforms like Roblox and Fortnite.