Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, ...

Meta has announced that its social virtual world, Horizon Worlds, will shift toward a mobile-first experience, loosening its ties to the Quest virtual reality headset line. The decision, confirmed ...

As The Verge also notes, the section on metaverse browsers is heavily redacted, but it does hint towards a few things, ...

After betting heavily on the metaverse—and spending many billions building it—Meta recently pivoted hard.

In general, Meta frames many of its recent moves as a pivot away from first-party development of VR experiences to a focus on a third-party developer ecosystem, with stats like “86% of the effective ...

Meta said it's shifting focus for Horizons Worlds to be "almost exclusively mobile" and that it will separate its Quest VR ...

Meta reorganizes its metaverse unit, shifting Vishal Shah to its AI division, per an internal memo. Gabriel Aul and Ryan Cairns now lead Meta's metaverse efforts, focusing on VR and mobile. Meta CTO ...

Shares of Meta Platforms rose up to 4% Thursday following reports the company was scaling back its spending on the metaverse project, a virtual reality experience the company once touted as the future ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is weighing significant cuts to the budget of its metaverse unit, Bloomberg and the New York Times reported today. The unit is responsible for the company’s Quest series of virtual ...

Meta’s grand metaverse experiment has reached a brutal inflection point. After Reality Labs racked up tens of billions of dollars in losses and wiped out a huge chunk of shareholder value, the company ...

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 ...