Meta announced its annual Connect developer conference is returning this year on September 17th-18th. While it’s probably still too early to speculate, there are a few things we’re hoping to hear ...

Meta is shutting down Horizon Worlds, the company's virtual reality social network, on June 15. The platform, originally designed for Quest VR headsets, will still be available on a mobile app. The ...

Following the downsizing of its Reality Labs division, Meta has announced plans to cut off its immersive Horizon Worlds social gaming platform from the company’s Quest virtual-reality headsets, ...

Meta Platforms Inc. will pull Horizon Worlds from its Quest virtual reality headsets after March 2026, ending the VR version of the social platform that once sat at the center of the company’s ...

The move reflects Meta’s strategy to prioritise scale through mobile rather than niche VR social adoption Reality Labs is “right-sizing” spending while continuing to back VR hardware development The ...

UPDATE (March 19, 2026 @ 3:00 p.m. PT): Apparently, Meta is not separating the VR element from Horizon Worlds after all. In an Instagram Q&A, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth spoke to a concerned fan of ...

Shadi Nayyer joined Meta in a new role focused on metaverse creator and developer relationships. Nayyer's role overseeing ecosystem growth rolls up into the Reality Labs content organization. Before ...

Last year, Meta introduced Horizon OS, its new branding for Meta Quest OS. The plan was to license Horizon OS to hardware partners, with ASUS and Lenovo initially confirmed as two. Meta now says those ...