He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Meta is reversing its plans to shut down its VR metaverse — sort of. On Monday, the company announced that it would be shutting down the ...

Reversing an earlier announcement, Meta says it's keeping Horizon Worlds on VR for the foreseeable future, but the company's focus is shifting to mobile and AI smart glasses.

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.

A day after saying it would shut down its metaverse, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced the service will remain available in ...

A day after announcing the Horizon Worlds would only be available on a mobile app starting in June, Meta said it changed its mind.

Horizon Worlds was once a cornerstone of Meta's plans to build a social metaverse -- four years later, the company almost ...

Horizon Worlds was supposed to help make virtual reality mainstream. But now Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is scaling down the app's ...

Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality ...

Meta ends Horizon Worlds VR support in June 2026, removes Quest access, and shifts focus to mobile experience and future VR ...

The dream of the metaverse may have died for now, but Meta has decided it’s not completely giving up on the VR experience in Horizon Worlds, the virtual worlds service that it o ...

When Facebook changed its name to Meta a few years ago, the idea was that the VR metaverse would become a huge pillar for the ...