{"id":347785,"date":"2026-03-19T19:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/347785\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:05:14","slug":"meta-to-keep-existing-horizon-worlds-vr-experiences-on-life-support-for-time-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/347785\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to Keep Existing ‘Horizon Worlds’ VR Experiences on Life Support for Time Being"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta previously announced it was shuttering the VR version of Horizon Worlds, but now it seems the company has\u00a0changed course, revealing that some experiences will still be accessible on Quest moving forward.<\/p>\n

Meta said earlier this week that it was removing Horizon Worlds and Events from the Store on Quest on March 31st, and shutting down VR access<\/a> to the app entirely by June 15th\u2014essentially making it a flatscreen-only experience for mobile and PC.<\/p>\n

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth took to Instagram yesterday in one of his usual Q&A sessions though to announce that some worlds will, in fact, remain VR-accessible for the time being.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Andrew Bosworth<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have decided, just today in fact, that we will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR for existing games to support the fans that\u2019ve reached out [\u2026], who really care about that,\u201d Bosworth says.<\/p>\n

According to Bosworth\u2019s statement, it appears Horizon Worlds legacy worlds will be VR-only, suggesting that it\u2019s going to be a hard platform split.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Horizon Unity runtime games\u2014they\u2019re not going to work on mobile, they\u2019ll just be working in VR. We\u2019re not bringing new games. Again, most of our energy is going towards mobile and the Meta Horizon Engine there. The reason for that is that\u2019s where most of the consumer and creator energy already was, and so we\u2019re kind of leaning into that,\u201d Bosworth says, noting that the legacy version of\u00a0Horizon Worlds app will be VR-accessible for \u201cthe foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notably, all of\u00a0Horizon Worlds\u00a0was based on the Unity game engine from its 2021 launch up until very recently. At Connect 2025 last September, Meta announced that its own Horizon Engine would be replacing Unity<\/a>, which is said to\u00a0speed up loading times and allow \u201cwell over 100\u201d users in a single space.<\/p>\n

At the time of this writing, Meta hasn\u2019t released more detailed plans on how it\u2019s going to accomplish the platform split. We\u2019ll update this article as soon as we know more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta previously announced it was shuttering the VR version of Horizon Worlds, but now it seems the company…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[85,46,125,340,341,342],"class_list":["post-347785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347785","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=347785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}