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Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR

Horizon Central, the town square of Meta's metaverse, already runs on the new Meta Horizon game engine.

Horizon Central, the town square of Meta’s metaverse, already runs on the new Meta Horizon game engine. | Image: Horizon Central

Meta, after laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs division, closing three VR studios, stopping new content for VR fitness app Supernatural, and discontinuing its metaverse for work, is announcing a major change for its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform. Instead of attempting to make the 3D social platform work for both VR and mobile, Meta is “explicitly separating” its “Quest VR platform from our Worlds platform” and “shifting the focus of Worlds to be almost exclusively mobile,” Samantha Ryan, Reality Labs’ VP of content, says in a blog post.

The new approach sets Meta up to better compete with platforms like Roblox and Fortnite, …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/881647/meta-vr-mobile-metaverse-horizon-worlds

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/881647/meta-vr-mobile-metaverse-horizon-worlds

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