Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- Meta announced earlier this year that it would stop supporting the social metaverse app on its Quest virtual reality headsets.
- On Tuesday, Meta confirmed on its community forums that Horizon Worlds would move to web and mobile only on June 15.
- But that announcement was quickly reversed.
- According to an Instagram post from Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth, Meta is not shutting down VR support for Horizon Worlds after all.
- Even if Horizon Worlds will now remain accessible via Quest, the fact that Meta planned to shut it down is proof enough that the metaverse — or at least how it was imagined in VR — turned out to be a black hole where Reality Labs funding went to die.
According to an Instagram post from Metas CTO Andrew Bosworth, Meta is not shutting down VR support for Horizon Worlds after all, which should come as a huge relief to, like, five people.We have [+3388 chars]
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