Meta’s flailing virtual reality social experience is being discontinued in June. It's part of Meta’s broader moves to slim down the business that became its namesake. The move comes after Meta made ...

Earlier this month, Meta shared an announcement that it would be moving away from supporting virtual reality with Horizon Worlds — its massively expensive metaverse project. Horizon Worlds, which ...

Commentary: Meta's pushing its metaverse platform almost entirely to phones. It's the latest sign of a massive shift in the company's focus. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I ...

Meta's Horizon Worlds will be available on Quest headsets for a while after all, after originally aiming for a June 15 hard shutdown. But it won't support anything new. I started with CNET reviewing ...

Meta will shut down the VR version of Horizon Worlds on June 15, 2026, as part of a strategic pivot toward mobile experiences and AI. The move follows earlier announcements to remove Horizon Worlds ...

After an abrupt announcement of closure several days ago, the VR edition of Meta Horizon Worlds, a platform-game hybrid by Facebook supercorp Meta, will in fact be staying up in effectively a ...

Meta’s enormous bet on virtual reality ended last week, with the company reportedly laying off roughly 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — about 10% of the unit’s staff — and shutting ...