{"id":482571,"date":"2026-03-18T17:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482571\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:51:13","slug":"meta-is-permanently-shuttering-the-vr-version-of-horizon-worlds-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482571\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is Permanently Shuttering the VR Version of ‘Horizon Worlds’ in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, Meta announced Horizon Worlds was going \u201calmost exclusively mobile\u201d<\/a>, which included removing Worlds suggestions and generally deemphasizing the immersive social platform on Quest. Now, the company says it\u2019s pulling the plug on Quest support entirely in June.<\/p>\n

Released in 2021, Horizon Worlds\u00a0was meant to be Meta\u2019s flagship metaverse app, essentially serving as the impetus for its\u00a0rebranding away from Facebook and Oculus<\/a>. The platform struggled early on with low retention though, which translated to limited appeal among VR users, prompting Meta to open it up to mobile users in 2023.<\/p>\n

Now, Meta announced via its official Discord (invite<\/a>) that come March 31st, Horizon Worlds and Events will no longer appear in the Store on Quest. This is said to include the removal of Horizon Central, Events Arena, Kaiju, and Bobber Bay worlds from Quest access.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Meta<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, come June 15th, Meta is removing the Horizon Worlds app entirely from Quest, which means that worlds will no longer be available in VR in any capacity after that date.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Meta is removing its spatial \u2018Hyperscape\u2019 captures from Horizon Worlds come March 24th. \u201cYour existing captures will remain viewable within the Hyperscape Capture (Beta) app, which is available in your Quest app library,\u201d Meta says. \u201cYou can continue capturing new Hyperscapes, but sharing, inviting, and co-experiencing Hyperscapes with others will no longer be supported.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notably,\u00a0Meta shuttered its work-focused Horizon Workrooms <\/a>platform\u00a0last month, which allowed\u00a0Quest and non-Quest users to interact in an immersive environment.<\/p>\n

This comes amid a wider shift in Reality Labs, which recently saw\u00a0layoffs affecting 10 percent of the\u00a0XR division<\/a>\u00a0in addition to the closure of three first-party XR studios<\/a>\u00a0which resulted in multiple game cancellations.<\/p>\n

Meta has said it\u2019s still funding third-party titles in addition to its current plans to release two new VR headsets<\/a>, which include a possible successor to Quest 3 as well as a thin and light headset that tethers to a compute puck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, Meta announced Horizon Worlds was going \u201calmost exclusively mobile\u201d, which included removing Worlds suggestions and generally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[86,56,54,55,4297,4298,4299],"class_list":["post-482571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}