Remember Meta's creepy Horizon virtual office? It's shutting down.

Wait, no more virtual sitting in a virtual chair, chatting with virtual people with a VR headset on, for hours? Bummer.

Mark Zuckerberg Says Video Not 'End Of The Line' As Meta Eyes Future Where Users Can Jump Inside The Content: 'The Investments That We've Done...'

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is looking beyond video toward interactive, immersive formats that let users step inside ...
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Meta to Shut Down Horizon Workrooms as Company Scales Back Metaverse Plans

Meta confirms Horizon Workrooms will shut down in February 2026 as the company shifts focus away from metaverse workplace VR.
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Meta is Deleting ‘Horizon Workrooms’ Next Month as Metaverse Ambitions Cool

Meta announced it’s discontinuing Horizon Workrooms next month, its productivity-focused VR platform, marking another step in ...

Meta to stop selling Quest headsets to businesses, discontinue multiple VR features

The first VR service that Meta will shut down is called Horizon Workrooms. Introduced in 2021, it provides a virtual conference room that can be accessed using the Facebook parent’s VR headsets.
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Meta CTO: Metaverse Efforts Led to a “lack of focus” on Quest “at expense of user experience”

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth offered the first bit of insight into the company’s recent Reality Labs shakeup, publicly acknowledging that Meta’s metaverse efforts suffered from a “lack of focus” that ...

Meta’s Reality Labs Cuts Add to Fears of ‘VR Winter’

Few believe Meta will abandon VR entirely, but many see an unmistakable pivot as resources move toward AI systems and devices ...

After Meta's course change: This is how the metaverse continues

Reality Labs chief Andrew Bosworth spoke for the first time this week about the cuts in the VR division and explained Meta's ...