Meta changes course on Horizon Worlds VR shut-down

One day after announcing the wind-down of its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform on Quest headsets, Meta is changing course: CTO Andrew Bosworth revealed during an Instagram AMA Wednesday evening that the company will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR for the "foreseeable future.”

Bosworth’s statements suggest that Horizon Worlds in VR will essentially be in a kind of maintenance mode. “The Horizon Unity Runtime Games, they’re not going to work on mobile, they will just work in VR. We’re not going to be bringing in new games. Again, most of our energy is going towards mobile and the Meta Horizon engine there. [...] But for people who already have games they like, [they] will be able to download the Horizon Worlds app and use it in VR for the foreseeable future.”

Bosworth said that the decision to keep Horizon Worlds running in VR was “to support the fans who have reached out.”