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Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

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Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

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Post by michelb »

ralusek wrote: post #63

Maybe I'm just naive but I don't really understand discontinuing things like this. Like, unless there are like 100 people using this, how can it not be possible to just leave this running at like 0.5% of its former capacity. Just leave up like 1 server, collapse all of the DBs into one, and let these few autists have their stuff.

It probably distracts from the AI race. With the newly bought political power it makes far more sense for Meta to align with whatever this administration seeks. And it’s not gaming or VR.

Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

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Post by zamadatix »

jesse_dot_id wrote: post #77

I never understood why they were trying to recreate real life social interactions in VR, because it's worse by default, and the majority of the nerds who buy this tech are probably trying to escape that on some level. I know that any time I went into Meta Horizon Worlds, I didn't want to hear 95% of the people I heard talking. What I do use VR for is Bigscreen VR nearly every night to watch stuff with my friends. Scr…

The last 10 years of the VR industry has been about trying to find users beyond the hardcore nerds who want to virtually meet up with friends every night or try out experiences/demos for more than a few days. The moment that hope goes away so do the tens of billions of investment as it was never really about finding out what that group of users wanted.

Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

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Post by Traster »

paxys wrote: post #79

It’s wild how much mismanagement Zuck is able to get away with just because he controls majority voting shares in Meta. At this point all of the missteps by the company in AR/VR, AI and everything else can directly be traced back to him. Half-baked vision, massive spending and no accountability. The company desperately needs a Sundar/Satya type leader.

At the end of the day the core business is throwing off tonnes of money and is run fine. Would it be better not to throw billions at the next cool thing? Who knows. Probably. But Google does the same thing and they've actually built some cool stuff.

Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

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Post by tavavex »

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.

While simultaneously renaming the VR headsets to also use Meta branding instead of Oculus, even though Oculus was a great brand and the most recognizable name in the VR industry. What made it worse is that by that point they'd produced lots of headsets with Oculus branding, including an Oculus button on one of the controllers. So, they had to change that button to also have a different logo and name, and have the software presumably recognize which revision you had to draw the correct controller model in the VR view. It's insane how far they went in pursuit of what they saw as the next NFTs.

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Post by riskable »

squidsoup wrote: post #64
t-writescode wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VRChat is the most popular one. Age verification. User generated models. User generated worlds. Revenue sharing in worlds. For-sale models and props. It’s quite feature rich now. Edit: fixed typo

Don't forget the deranged furries.

They're not all deranged! Some are completely productive, functional furries. Probably. Maybe.

Also, your statement is far too reductive! There's plenty of avatars with scales! Also, don't forget the anime girls that are actually middle-aged men and the occasional sentient burrito.

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Post by TacticalCoder »

michelb wrote: post #87
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.

So, a fraction of the AI investments? It’s pretty clear where the focus is bow and who/what no longer has a future at Meta.

> So, a fraction of the AI investments? It’s pretty clear where the focus is bow and who/what no longer has a future at Meta.

And the tens of billions spent on AI at Meta... As a result, we're all using "Meta Code CLI" and "ChatBook" and "Geminizuck" right?

Seriously: while we're all on Claude Code using the Anthropic models and many are happy with Gemini and ChatGPT for other stuff, where is Meta's AI offering? I love their Segment Anything Models (SAM) but what the heck has Meta to answer to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI?

Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

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Post by paxys »

renewiltord wrote: post #56
rhcom2 wrote: post #14

The most obvious and expected outcome to everyone except Zuck.

Zuck has become a very rich man avoiding all the obvious and expected outcomes. When Facebook stock hit its low a few years ago, HN was explaining why it was doomed. The man has founder mentality at the helm of a trillion-dollar company. It is no wonder he is what he is.

The stock lows was a market overreaction, and it corrected itself soon after. It’s not like Zuck got the company out of the hole by making some genius moves. Quite the opposite. Meta would be in an equally good or better position today had Zuck just done nothing for the last decade.

Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

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Post by einsteinx2 »

Traster wrote: post #90
tyleo wrote: post #2

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.

I was at Intel for a while and there was one glaring problem - they have one product that spins off a huge amount of cash. This means a few things: First, that one product is really where the things that matter happen. But second, they have all this money and they don't know what to do with it, they can't spend it all on their core product because that looks terrible - they're already throwing off money, investing mo…

Sounds a lot like Google as well

Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

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Post by riskable »

Eufrat wrote: post #35
sergiotapia wrote: post #15

The quest is such a beautiful device. I hope they continue to work on it and release new versions. VR is so good and still in it's infancy.

> VR is so good and still in it's infancy. I believe 30% of the population cannot use VR in any way shape or form because your inner ear has decided the floor is the only place you can be.

FYI: This is usually solved by placing a fan on the floor in front of your boundary (designated play area). This isn't just a "community tip", it's been studied:

https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/tg/2025/05/10916971/24...

Re: Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

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Post by paxys »

robot_jesus wrote: post #50
senderista wrote: post #25

Imagine what $100B could have done for medical or energy research.

As a thought experiment, they probably helped the world global happiness more by burning $100B rather than just sitting on a massive cash hoard as so many tech companies enjoy doing. Sitting in their coffers it was doing nothing. At least this way, it went to a whole bunch of individuals, manufacturing startups, etc. And theoretically many of those recipients spent some of it. I'm not saying it wasn't wasted spend, b…

I wouldn’t call what Meta is providing to the world “happiness”. Addiction is a lot more apt.
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