The Metaverse app will disappear from VR on June 15

Meta’s biggest swing at creating a virtual reality social network is a quick death in June. Horizon worldsa platform that Meta said would de-emphasize virtual reality in favor of mobile earlier this year, disappears From VR on June 15.

The news, which broke yesterday, came as a shock to people like me who thought the Meta would at least retain access to some community-created VR experiences, such as AA support groupsRun. This is definitely not the case. Horizon Worlds will no longer be accessible at all after June 15 in the Meta Quest headphones.

Meta said she would lower her priorities VR metaverse app last month, but this latest news confirms the complete shift to mobile for Horizon Worlds, a platform I haven’t used much and has angered many VR developers who find it stealing interest from games on the Meta App Store. Instead, Meta will continue to build Horizon Worlds as a mobile app to compete with Roblox and similar apps.

The end goal here is also unclear: Will future Meta headsets work with phones to access these experiences? I would say it’s questionable that Meta still doesn’t have a real way to connect any of its headphones or glasses to be fully mobile-powered beyond simple audio and video streaming. The company is also pulling back on its impressive space capture app Hyperscape Capture Which was released in beta last year, removing its ability to share scans with other people using headphones.

Meta pulled out of virtual reality this year, after shutting down its fitness app supernatural To close down several high-profile game studios it had acquired. The big question is whether Meta will shut down VR completely one day.

Meta says no, and reports say a new VR headset is coming next year. But all the things I’ve seen so far indicate that the Meta is all about AI and AR glasses. Meta glasses can’t handle it yet Features Offered by Quest headphones. With such a rapid rate of transitions to the company’s XR strategies, I don’t know if they will.