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Historians will write about the 'metaverse' as the last software frontier humanity embarked on before AI. What a shame. Hopefully capitalism and AI research does not produce equally bad products and ideas.
Maybe it'll be a case study in business schools for a while, but I think that'll be the extent of its legacy
It was a losing play that didn’t know what market it was actually entering.
When will horizon worlds be axed entirely? It has something like fewer than 10,000 active users at any given time.
> By March 31, 2026, Horizon Worlds and Events will no longer appear in the Store on Quest. Also, Horizon Central, Events Arena, Kaiju, and Bobber Bay worlds will no longer be available in VR. You can still jump into your other favorite worlds in VR until June 15, 2026, after which the Horizon Worlds app will be removed from Quest, and Worlds will no longer be available in VR.
Historians will write about the 'metaverse' as the last software frontier humanity embarked on before AI. What a shame. Hopefully capitalism and AI research does not produce equally bad products and ideas.
Unbelievable. They re-architected the whole operating system around this stupid app. They discontinued their previous homescreen environments in favor of trying to promote Horizon Worlds, only to discontinue the blasted thing anyway? After all of those millions of dollars spent trying to make virtual events happen?
10 billion a year supposedly for the past 5 years now.
Interesting, cutting way back in the product they renamed the whole company for. They feel a bit directionless to me. They are still making money but even their AI attempt feels half hearted. I think they are really trying but I’m not sure they can build the engineering muscle to move in new areas with the brand damage they’ve sustained.
They were trying to compete with an existing, VERY good couple of alternatives, and the people most actually likely to use that product were already on those services. It was a losing play that didn’t know what market it was actually entering.
Layoffs are probably on the horizon