Meta Metaverse Future and Horizon Worlds Cuts

The Most Important Thing

risk is largely a matter of opinion

Jerome Cody

·5 years ago

shared a media post in group #The Most Important Thingvia#The Most Important Thing

Any predictions for Meta’s meta verse ambitions?  Mine is DoA.  Not only because Zuck is the last person you’d want in charge of it but this latest news -  they plan to take an overall cut of up to 47.5% on every virtual asset sale in its metaverse – Horizon Worlds
#The Most Important Thing #Digital Wellness 📱🧘

Bobby
THE METAVERSE WAS JUST A FLING - There will be no press release, no big announcement, as he would have to acknowledge that he was wrong. But make no mistake: Mark Zuckerberg just buried the metaverse. The metaverse is dead. The metaverse was supposed to be the Next Big Thing for the social-media tycoon, who in 2021 went so far as to rename his empire -- created from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp -- as Meta Platforms. thestreet.com/technology/..

Sam Mendoza
This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. Not sure how I’m supposed to feel about it. #Marketing & Growth

Sam Mendoza
Meta Platforms is considering cutting as much as 30% of the employees in the Metaverse unit of its Reality Labs division, according to reports in The New York Times and Bloomberg on Thursday. After losing nearly $80 billion on Reality Labs in the past five years, it seems Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pulling back—a bit. The Times report cautioned that he wasn’t pulling back on the metaverse (of course not!). But given that he is spending tens of billions on AI, cutting costs elsewhere seems prudent. Meta stock, which has been on the outs on Wall Street lately, rose 3.4% on news of the coming cuts. Investors do like layoffs. nytimes.com/2025/12/04/te.. bloomberg.com/news/articl..
www.nytimes.com
nytimes.com

Cyril
Meta Platforms is shutting down Horizon Worlds for its virtual reality headset users, the company announced Tuesday. The VR social network will continue to operate via its mobile app, but users accessing it through the Meta Quest headset will no longer be able to create, publish or update virtual environments starting in June. Horizon Worlds was once a central part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse. communityforums.atmeta.co..
communityforums.atmeta.com
Updates to Your Meta Quest Experience in 2026 | Meta Community Forums - 1369435
Earlier this year, we shared an update on our renewed focus for VR and Horizon. We are separating the two platforms so each can grow with greater focus, and... - 1369435

Todd Smith
Whatever skepticism I feel about Muse, I must acknowledge being genuinely impressed with Meta's other big announcement on Wednesday. The Meta VR Glasses, which effectively shrink the Apple Vision Pro into a device that is one-sixth the weight and roughly one-third the price, appear to be a landmark development in the history of virtual reality. #Gadgets platformer.news/meta-conn..
www.platformer.news
Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?
Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself. (The VR Glasses are amazing, though)

Embed post to a webpage :

<div data-postid="bxdg" [...] </div>