{"id":48,"date":"2026-02-19T20:47:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=48"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:47:54","slug":"metas-vr-metaverse-is-ditching-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s VR metaverse is ditching VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horizon Central, the town square of Meta's metaverse, already runs on the new Meta Horizon game engine.\" data-caption=\"Horizon Central, the town square of Meta's metaverse, already runs on the new Meta Horizon game engine. | Image: Horizon Central\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Horizon Central\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/horizon-worlds-everywhere_fc3d1a.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tHorizon Central, the town square of Meta&#8217;s metaverse, already runs on the new Meta Horizon game engine. | Image: Horizon Central\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Meta, after laying off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/861295\/meta-reality-labs-layoffs-shift-to-wearables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about 10 percent of its Reality Labs division<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/861420\/meta-reality-labs-layoffs-vr-studios-twisted-pixel-sanzaru-armature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closing three VR studios<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/871250\/supernatural-meta-vr-fitness-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopping new content for VR fitness app <em>Supernatural<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/863209\/meta-has-discontinued-its-metaverse-for-work-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discontinuing its metaverse for work<\/a>, is announcing a major change for its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform. Instead of attempting to make the 3D social platform work for both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/9\/22825139\/meta-horizon-worlds-access-open-metaverse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VR<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/9\/25\/23887494\/meta-horizon-worlds-web-mobile-vr-super-rumble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mobile<\/a>, Meta is &#8220;explicitly separating&#8221; its &#8220;Quest VR platform from our Worlds platform&#8221; and &#8220;shifting the focus of Worlds to be almost exclusively mobile,&#8221; Samantha Ryan, Reality Labs&#8217; VP of content, <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.meta.com\/horizon\/blog\/2026-vr-state-of-the-union-horizon-mobile-focus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The new approach sets Meta up to better compete with platforms like Roblox and <em>Fortnite<\/em>, \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/881647\/meta-vr-mobile-metaverse-horizon-worlds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horizon Central, the town square of Meta&#8217;s metaverse, already runs on the new Meta Horizon game engine. | Image: Horizon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}