Meta Pulls Horizon Worlds From Quest, Moves Metaverse Bet to Mobile

Overview

• Horizon Worlds will leave the Quest store on May 31 and be deleted from Quest headsets on June 15, according to the latest company guidance reported by LA NACION.
• Horizon experiences will continue in a mobile app, shifting the social platform away from a VR-first design toward a more accessible phone-based model.
• Meta has been restructuring Reality Labs, with reports citing more than 1,000 layoffs, as the company redirects resources toward artificial intelligence.
• Media accounts estimate Meta’s multiyear metaverse push at up to $80 billion in spending, underscoring the scale of the retreat from its original VR ambitions.
• Low headset penetration, high entry costs, and unclear use cases are cited in coverage as key reasons the metaverse effort failed to achieve broad uptake; Meta Horizon Plus perks change on March 31 and the Hyperscape Capture beta ends March 24.