Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

Post by gcr » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 8:10 PM UTC

LorenDB wrote: post #31

robot_jesus wrote: post #23

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From the article: > 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.

But Horizon Worlds will continue to be available on mobile, so it's just the Quest ecosystem losing access in favor of a phone-first platform.

Post by ralusek » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 8:12 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 8:13 PM UTC

mosura wrote: post #41

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?

The usage numbers probably reflect what happened in this house: since the pestering to confirm age and the horizon worlds update the Meta VR devices have literally not been recharged. They had the foundation of something half reasonable at one point, but their product management clearly got in the way.

Post by johnwheeler » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 8:14 PM UTC

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?

Post by Anon1096 » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 8:16 PM UTC

tyleo wrote: post #18

bhouston wrote: post #9

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> Interesting, cutting way back in the product they renamed the whole company for. It was clearly the wrong bet. He pumped something like $100B into the endeavour (Meta Quest / VR / Horizons) and it is just slowly dying as we speak. He has to give up on it, although I am sure it will be called a "pivot" into AR glasses.

Yeah, it was a bizarre decision. There isn't a clear ROI on games and that's what Horizon Worlds has been the whole time. There's no equation that says a 100M game automatically makes 100x more than a 1M game on average. If anything the equation is sub-linear. 100B just doesn't seem like the right size for a game investment.