{"id":239972,"date":"2026-01-15T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/239972\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:55:08","slug":"meta-quest-vr-gaming-future-in-doubt-as-meta-closes-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/239972\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Quest VR Gaming Future In Doubt As Meta Closes Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" top-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768506908_904_0x0.jpg\" alt=\"A Meta Quest 3 rendered image. \" data-height=\"800\" data-width=\"1200\" fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s Reality Labs is reportedly laying off up to <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/antoniopequenoiv\/2026\/01\/12\/meta-could-reportedly-lay-off-10-of-its-reality-labs-division-workforce\/#\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/antoniopequenoiv\/2026\/01\/12\/meta-could-reportedly-lay-off-10-of-its-reality-labs-division-workforce\/#\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"10 per cent of staff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">10 per cent of staff<\/a> in cutbacks that now include the shuttering of multiple internal studios for <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andrewwilliams\/2026\/01\/05\/meta-quest-series-future-looks-bleaker-as-shipments-decline\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andrewwilliams\/2026\/01\/05\/meta-quest-series-future-looks-bleaker-as-shipments-decline\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Meta Quest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meta Quest<\/a> games. <\/p>\n<p>Studios set to shut down include Armature, Twisted Pixel and Sanzaru Games, which have been responsible for some of the Meta Quest titles, while Supernatural is reportedly being severely downsized. <\/p>\n<p>Armature produced the VR port of Resident Evil 4, Sanzaru Games made the Asgard\u2019s Wrath titles, while Twisted Pixel made Marvel\u2019s Deadpool VR. <\/p>\n<p>These closures have been confirmed by <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/861295\/meta-reality-labs-layoffs-shift-to-wearables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/861295\/meta-reality-labs-layoffs-shift-to-wearables\" aria-label=\"The Verge\">The Verge<\/a>, while Supernatural \u2014 which maintains fitness app Supernatural VR \u2014 will reportedly operate as a skeleton staff. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to recent organizational changes to our Studio, Supernatural will no longer receive new content or feature updates starting today,\u201d the developer wrote on a Facebook community page. <\/p>\n<p>These closures and scaling back of staff are happening just a few years on from the studios\u2019 acquisitions by Meta. The company acquired Twisted Pixel and Armature Studio in 2022, and Sanzaru Games in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Wider Reality Labs layoffs\u2019 upper estimates are in the 1500 range, based on plans to cut staff numbers by 10%. <\/p>\n<p>Play Puzzles &amp; Games on Forbes<\/p>\n<p>Meta Quest Reality Check<\/p>\n<p>These cuts have not come out of the blue. In December 2025, <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-04\/meta-s-zuckerberg-plans-deep-cuts-for-metaverse-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-04\/meta-s-zuckerberg-plans-deep-cuts-for-metaverse-efforts\" aria-label=\"Bloomberg\">Bloomberg<\/a> reported Meta was planning to reduce Reality Labs budgets by up to 30% in a strategic shift. <\/p>\n<p>While Meta is not abandoning its costly Metaverse project entirely, it is refocusing its efforts on augmented reality glasses. <\/p>\n<p>Ray-Ban Meta glasses have proved fairly popular, and the series recently got a major upgrade. <\/p>\n<p>Meta announced the <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidphelan\/2026\/01\/08\/meta-ray-ban-display-smart-glasses-are-delayed-company-admits\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidphelan\/2026\/01\/08\/meta-ray-ban-display-smart-glasses-are-delayed-company-admits\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses<\/a> in September 2025. They have an in-vision display, where older versions of the hardware rely on audio feedback and a camera only. <\/p>\n<p>Meta has delayed a planned launch of the glasses outside of the U.S. in early 2026 due to high demand within the U.S. alone. That is despite a relatively high starting cost of $799, including wristband controller. <\/p>\n<p>The Reality Labs division of Meta has lost more than $70 billion since it was established in 2020. This is despite the <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andrewwilliams\/2024\/10\/28\/meta-quest-3s-vs-2-a-hands-on-comparison\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andrewwilliams\/2024\/10\/28\/meta-quest-3s-vs-2-a-hands-on-comparison\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Meta Quest 2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meta Quest 2<\/a> in particular selling enough units to be considered a mainstream hit, with more than 20 million units shifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s Reality Labs is reportedly laying off up to 10 per cent of staff in cutbacks that now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[85,46,1430,31994,127911,125,340,341,342,82227],"class_list":{"0":"post-239972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-meta","11":"tag-meta-quest-3","12":"tag-reality-labs","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-virtual-reality","15":"tag-virtualreality","16":"tag-vr","17":"tag-vr-games"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}