Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

Post by alexchantavy » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 3:21 AM UTC

yallpendantools wrote: post #161

atrus wrote: post #89

Despite the shock at the amount of money meta spent on their version of the metaverse, I don't think they spent nearly enough to accomplish their vision. Meta, to the detriment of the market, tried too early in the VR lifecycle to own the market. They basically tried to become the iPhone and Apple in the year 1990. Tell me, do you believe any singular company in the year 1990, with 100B to burn, would be able to crea…

I think you make a good point but also, honestly, VR seemed so beyond Facebook's depth. Zuck, IMO, was reaching for a pie on a table at the other end of the room. I understand the whole point of acquiring Oculus was to get allies on that table at the other end but---excuse my corpo-speak here---I don't think Oculus ever had synergy with the rest of Facebook's business. This is just my 2c as an outside observer, softw…

Post by ncr100 » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 4:27 AM UTC

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #47

xd1936 wrote: post #4

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?

They also renamed the entire corporation from "Facebook" to "Meta" to prove how serious they were about it.

Post by steve1977 » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 5:42 AM UTC

Post by reverius42 » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 6:43 AM UTC

jemmyw wrote: post #208

kemotep wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Billions. Facebook has spent billions and billions over the past decade in VR. Starting with the Oculus merger and then in 2021 with the rebrand. 10 billion a year supposedly for the past 5 years now.

Is that a bad thing? That's 10b that engineers and other employees now have and Facebook doesn't have. And while VR might never make them money, is it bad from our pov that they did the research and development?

Post by OrangeMusic » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 7:39 AM UTC

netsharc wrote: post #174

darth_avocado wrote: post #8

Layoffs are probably on the horizon

Oh no, those poor people who are happy to get paid making products and services to exploit our basest emotions, amp them for "engagement", subverting civility and democracy in the meanwhile, are going to be laid off?!