The Meta has stopped working in the metaverse as well

Meta will also not sell the headset and its software as a service to businesses, You read another help page: “We are discontinuing sales of Meta Horizon managed services and Meta Quest commercial SKUs, effective February 20, 2026.”

Mita has just been laid off Nearly 10 percent of the entire Reality Labs division, and more than 1,000 jobs. In the aftermath, it has become increasingly clear that Zuckerberg has changed his mind about the true meaning of the word “metaverse.” Mobile phone yes, smart glasses yes, but maybe not virtual reality.

What’s next, Horizon Worlds? Maybe Meta will draw the line there, since it’s one of the few VR experiences Meta is now available on mobile phones also; Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth has already said that the company’s Horizon team will “double its efforts to bring the best Horizon experiences and AI creation tools to mobile” in a memo obtained by by Bloomberg.

Bloomberg “Meta will continue to develop the Metaverse, but with a focus on mobile phones rather than the fully immersive VR headsets the company initially envisioned.” To be clear, the term “metaverse” was coined. Snow crash Author Neal Stephenson to describe the world of shared, fully immersive virtual reality, but I guess mobile makes sense if you think about it fortnite To be metaverse And you don’t need the “fully immersive” part.

It appears that Meta Workrooms will be shutting down abruptly on February 16, to the point that “any data associated with Workrooms will be deleted.” The company recommends trying Arthur, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom Workplace instead, and also writes that the Meta Quest Remote Desktop app will still be there if you want to emulate multiple virtual screens in your headset.

As for Meta Horizon’s managed services, the company writes that existing customers can continue to access those services until January 4, 2030, and licenses will be free after February 16 of this year.