The VR version of Meta's Horizon Worlds platform is shutting down on June 15 as the company focuses its attention on its mobile app.

All 20 users are going to be severely disappointed.

  • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    They published an update article.

    Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon Worlds in VR for the “foreseeable future,” though users shouldn’t expect new games, CTO Andrew Bosworth said in an update.

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 days ago

    The best comment on this I’ve seen…

    It turns out, to the horror of techbros like Zuck, that the actual core demographics for VR worlds are not edgy cyberpunk antiheroes whose coolness could rub off on them, but femboy otaku who want to go drinking with friends while dressed as fabulous anime girls without even having leave their home and trans furries who want to party at visually spectacular virtual raves then pirate movies and have virtual cuddle piles.

    Which… isn’t very monetizable for normies.

    …yet. 😈

  • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Reading the article, Horizon Worlds is not shutting down, just the VR access. Apparently they’ve moved it to apps you access on iPhone and Android. I see the appeal even less; that seems like Second Life mobile.

  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    What a comical waste of $80 Billion. Coulda bought two Twitters with that money instead and still come out on top.

  • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Tbh I always thought it was unreleased and still being developed. My shock when I found out it was available and no one used it.

    Came off like VRChat for idiots.

  • dorumon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Oh my God it’s finally fucking over. I can use a Quest headset again without being inaudatited with ads essentially from Horizon Worlds. I can use the headset again without having to constantly hack it.