Meta shuts down Horizon Worlds after ~$80B losses

Meta will remove Horizon Worlds from the Quest store by end of March 2026. The VR version will fully shut down on June 15. Reality Labs has accumulated about $70–80B in losses since 2020.

Horizon Worlds was the core product behind Meta’s VR metaverse strategy. It aimed to let users build and explore virtual spaces inside headsets.

With the shutdown, the main consumer metaverse product in VR is effectively gone. The scale of losses and the exit point to a shift away from this direction.

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