Meta’s metaverse leaves the real world behind

Trim he announced a major update to its most immersive world, Horizon Worlds, on Thursday that will see it stop moving. The tech giant said it is changing Horizon Worlds to be “almost mobile” and that it is “separating” its Quest VR platform from the real world.

Meta’s Reality Labs division of VR and smart glasses development has been lost about $80 billion starting in 2020. The update to Horizon Worlds, and other recent moves, show that Meta is seriously rethinking its VR ambitions.

Last month, the company reportedly quit about 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division – about 10% of the division’s workforce – and Close it several VR game studios. In addition, it was reported that the VR fitness program Supernatural, which Meta got it in 2023, it will no longer produce new products and will go into “maintenance mode.”

Horizon Worlds was launched in 2021 as a VR platform and later he rolled over to the internet and phones. Meta said on Thursday that “in order to change the game and get a bigger market, we are going mobile.”

Going mobile first, Horizon Worlds is positioning itself to compete with popular platforms like Roblox and Fortnite.

“We have the opportunity to deliver interactive games at scale, thanks to our unique ability to connect games to billions of people on the world’s largest websites,” Samantha Ryan, VP of product for Reality Labs, said in a post. “You saw that this process will start happening in 2025, and that is our main goal.”

Ryan also noted that Meta is still focused on VR devices.

“We have a strong roadmap for future VR headsets that will suit different audience segments as the market grows and expands,” Ryan wrote.

Meta quests are best left to the AI. After changing his investment for Reality Labs away from the metaverseMeta is now focusing on developing AI clothing and furthering its development Types of AI.

When Meta received its latest funding last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg he said“It’s hard to imagine a world in a few years where most of the glasses people wear won’t be AI glasses.”

The executive also said that sales of Meta glasses have tripled in the past year, calling them “one of the fastest growing electronic products in history.”