The VR version of Meta's Horizon Worlds platform is shutting down on June 15 as the company focuses its attention on its mobile app.

All 20 users are going to be severely disappointed.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    9 小时前

    Ironically, this will end up as a upgrade to Meta Quest owners, as they no longer will have that bullshit shoved all over the “Home” ambient.

  • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    9 小时前

    They published an update article.

    Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon Worlds in VR for the “foreseeable future,” though users shouldn’t expect new games, CTO Andrew Bosworth said in an update.

  • dorumon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    23·
    22 小时前

    Oh my God it’s finally fucking over. I can use a Quest headset again without being inaudatited with ads essentially from Horizon Worlds. I can use the headset again without having to constantly hack it.

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    94·
    1 天前

    The best comment on this I’ve seen…

    It turns out, to the horror of techbros like Zuck, that the actual core demographics for VR worlds are not edgy cyberpunk antiheroes whose coolness could rub off on them, but femboy otaku who want to go drinking with friends while dressed as fabulous anime girls without even having leave their home and trans furries who want to party at visually spectacular virtual raves then pirate movies and have virtual cuddle piles.

    Which… isn’t very monetizable for normies.

    …yet. 😈

  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    140·
    1 天前

    What a comical waste of $80 Billion. Coulda bought two Twitters with that money instead and still come out on top.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    1 天前

    I tried Horizons once. Confused TF out of me what its purpose was other than to have random people screaming into mics and yelling n**** at you all the time.

    It was not a fun experience and I never saw the point. I play VR games for VR experiences with actual fun in them.

    • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      13 小时前

      The picture in the article clearly shows a virtual lady trying to kick a guy’s virtual balls. I think that says all one needs to know about the experience.

    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      13 小时前

      It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s unlicensed digital daycares.

      I’ve only ever encountered children between ages of 6 and 15 there.

    • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 天前

      Confused TF out of me what its purpose was other than to have random people screaming into mics and yelling n**** at you all the time.

      So VR Discord?

  • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
    76·
    1 天前

    Tbh I always thought it was unreleased and still being developed. My shock when I found out it was available and no one used it.

    Came off like VRChat for idiots.

    • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.socialEnglish
      16·
      1 天前

      They tried REALLY hard to get us to use it for meetings when I worked there, but nobody wanted to give up their legs ¯\(ツ)/¯

  • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    1 天前

    Reading the article, Horizon Worlds is not shutting down, just the VR access. Apparently they’ve moved it to apps you access on iPhone and Android. I see the appeal even less; that seems like Second Life mobile.

    • rants_unnecessarily@piefed.socialEnglish
      18·
      1 天前

      I loaded up my vr headset the other day for the first time in… A year? Maybe more.
      And I was surprised to find my own custom decorated room was gone and instead I had a balcony to that Horizon place.
      I could see little people running and jumping around and some portals or doorways and other stuff.

      Is that what they are shutting down?
      So what happens to VR headsets’ “home screen”?
      Does it go back to the way it was?

    • AngryRedHerring@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 天前

      I can’t wait for the day that I’m forced to switch from a discontinued Meta to a homebrewed OS that supports my library.

  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 天前

    Was this the thing with legless avatars from the uncanny valley? No idea how they wasted so much money - they’d have done better to employ a good gaming studio to make something fun that looked good. Could have saved billions there.

  • _NetNomad@fedia.io
    17·
    1 天前

    The company shared that it would go “all-in” on the mobile version of the platform in February.

    TIL there’s a non-VR version of Horizon. wasn’t the whole point that it was VR? what’s even left if you take out the VR, just voice chat?