Meta isn't shutting down its VR metaverse
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Meta knows it can’t fully abandon VR, even if the hype surrounding the metaverse and its Horizon Worlds virtual environment has withered to a shallow husk of its initial promise. Just two days after Meta confirmed to fans it was pulling the plug on Horizon Worlds for VR,
Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.
Horizon Worlds was supposed to help make virtual reality mainstream. But now Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is scaling down the app's VR support to focus on mobile users instead.
The keynote featured a bonkers video of Zuckerberg jumping between various CGI-rendered depictions of the metaverse in virtual reality. He visited a spaceship where the company’s executives were playing poker,
Meta‘s metaverse ambitions are hitting a crossroads. In a move that marks a dramatic shift in strategy, the tech giant is shutting down the VR version of Horizon Worlds on Quest. Once hailed as the future of digital interaction,
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You're laughing. The metaverse is dying, and you're laughing.
Instead of hanging out with no legs, we're stuck with in AI slop purgatory.
Reality Labs, the Meta division that hosts the project, has racked up around $75 billion in operating losses since 2020.
Turns out Zuck's Metaverse really didn't have legs.