He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Meta is reversing its plans to shut down its VR metaverse — sort of. On Monday, the company announced that it would be shutting down the ...

Reversing an earlier announcement, Meta says it's keeping Horizon Worlds on VR for the foreseeable future, but the company's focus is shifting to mobile and AI smart glasses.

Meta Platforms Inc. will pull Horizon Worlds from its Quest virtual reality headsets after March 2026, ending the VR version of the social platform that once sat at the center of the company’s ...

Meta is reconsidering its plans to discontinue the VR metaverse of its 3D social platform Horizon Worlds on June 15, to shift ...

Meta's Horizon Worlds will be available on Quest headsets for a while after all, after originally aiming for a June 15 hard shutdown. But it won't support anything new.

Meta has pulled the plug on its plan to, well, pull the plug on a big but unpopular part of its metaverse. As TechCrunch ...

Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon ...

A day after announcing the Horizon Worlds would only be available on a mobile app starting in June, Meta said it changed its mind.

Horizon Worlds was once a cornerstone of Meta's plans to build a social metaverse -- four years later, the company almost ...

Horizon Worlds was supposed to help make virtual reality mainstream. But now Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is scaling down the app's ...

Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.

Selfix turns your iPhone into a creator tool with rear camera selfies, a built-in display, and expandable storage.