Meta not closing ‘Horizon Worlds’ in VR

Meta has pulled a 180 on its flagship Metaverse app. on tuesday, The company announced The date he plans to close the virtual hangspace Horizon Worlds. Then late yesterday, the company announced that it would indeed keep it worlds For VR users “for the foreseeable future.” in An Instagram storyMeta CTO Andrew Bosworth said, “We decided, today in fact, that we will keep. Horizon Worlds Working in VR for existing games, to support the fans that have been reached.”

According to Bosworth, Meta will not work on anyone New VR games inside worldsBut the current content will still be around for VR users. “People who already have games that they like, that they’re using Horizon Worldswill be able to download Horizon Worlds application and use it in VR for the foreseeable future,” said Bosworth.

While the world will be open to VR users, Meta is focusing on mobile users. Any new meta-generated content will focus on users on their phones. “Most of our energy goes to mobile, because that’s where most of the consumer and creator energy was already,” Bosworth said.

Meta revealed his plan early on turn off Horizon Worlds For VR in Februarythen Concrete plans announced To pull the plug on Tuesday.

Putting its flagship Metaverse app for VR users into maintenance mode is a huge turnaround for the company that has rebranded itself as “Meta.” CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the name change and both Horizon Worlds Himself in his company Connect event in 2021Metaverse is touted as the “successor to the mobile Internet” that will eventually host more than a billion people. How it didn’t work: Meta’s Reality Labs division, of which Horizon Worlds One is the segment, which has spent an estimated $83.55 billion through 2021, and since then Meta has cut jobs in the division, cutting dedicated retail divisions. First-party VR game and fitness content.

on top of that, Horizon Worlds report There were only 200,000 monthly users. For comparison, Roblox has 381 million monthly users. But it’s nice that the meta is at least keeping the lights on for that relatively small number of fans. There may not be as many metas, but there certainly are Passionate members of worlds communitywho will still be able to gather in their VR spaces.

The headsets are out; There are smart glasses

Even though meta Recently reiterated With its commitment to supporting third-party VR developers and promising “a robust roadmap of future VR headsets,” the company is clearly focused on advancing AI and smart glasses. Scaling behind it worlds And other first-party Meta VR content shows where the market is: Unlike the Quest line of headsets, Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses have proven an unqualified success for the company, according to the report. It plans to manufacture 20 million pairs of smart glasses by 2026. “Face computers” that interact with the world and enhance the world we live in are more popular than headsets that transport us to other worlds.