[STEAM] Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind

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Meta announced today that it will divorce its Horizon Worlds social and gaming service—once promoted as the company's first major step into the metaverse—from its Quest VR headset platform and digital store.

The company says it is now "shifting the focus of Worlds to be almost exclusively mobile." The

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is also filled with statements like "we're doubling down on the VR developer ecosystem" that are attempting to head off any suggestion that Meta is retreating from the mixed reality space.

This is far from the first signal that big changes are happening with Meta's mixed reality strategy. CNBC

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that Meta has lost $80 billion on investments in Reality Labs, the company's mixed reality division. More than 1,000 Reality Labs employees were

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in January, but don't misread that as a total closure; more than 15,000 people were working in that part of the organization before the layoffs.

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