Horizon Worlds, Meta’s first cross at a metaverse, might be inaccessible through digital actuality headset after June 15, 2026. The corporate shared plans to separate Horizon Worlds from Quest VR platform and focus completely on the smartphone model of the app in February, and now in a brand new publish on its neighborhood boards, Meta detailed when the VR model of Horizon Worlds might be deprecated.
By March 31, Meta says particular person Horizon Worlds and Occasions will now not be listed within the Quest’s Retailer and headset homeowners might be unable to go to worlds like “Horizon Central, Occasions Area, Kaiju and Bobber Bay.” Then, after June 15, the app might be faraway from Quest headsets and worlds might be fully unavailable to go to in VR. From that time on, the simplest place to go to Horizon Worlds might be within the Meta Horizon app for iOS and Android.
Moreover, Hyperscape Seize, a not too long ago added beta function that permits Quest headset homeowners to seize, share and go to one another in detailed 3D scans of real-life places, can be being faraway from Horizon Worlds. Meta says customers will nonetheless be capable of seize and look at Hyperscapes, “however sharing, inviting, and co-experiencing Hyperscapes with others will now not be supported.”
Whereas Meta’s authentic weblog detailing its 2026 VR technique left open the chance {that a} dedicated Quest proprietor may nonetheless be capable of entry some a part of Meta’s authentic VR metaverse, that apparently was by no means the corporate’s plan. Meta noticed sufficient “optimistic momentum” specializing in supporting the cell model of Horizon Worlds in 2025 that it made sense to fully abandon the VR one in 2026. Whereas that appears to run opposite to Meta’s positioning as a “metaverse firm,” it does mirror the place the corporate is spending essentially the most cash and seeing essentially the most (relative) success: AI and sensible glasses.
