Horizon Worlds, Meta’s first cross at a metaverse, shall be inaccessible by way of digital actuality headset after June 15, 2026. The corporate shared plans to separate Horizon Worlds from Quest VR platform and focus solely on the smartphone model of the app in February, and now in a new post on its neighborhood boards, Meta detailed when the VR model of Horizon Worlds shall be deprecated.
By March 31, Meta says particular person Horizon Worlds and Occasions will now not be listed within the Quest’s Retailer and headset homeowners shall be unable to go to worlds like “Horizon Central, Occasions Area, Kaiju and Bobber Bay.” Then, after June 15, the app shall be faraway from Quest headsets and worlds shall be fully unavailable to go to in VR. From that time on, the simplest place to go to Horizon Worlds shall be within the Meta Horizon app for iOS and Android.
Moreover, Hyperscape Capture, a not too long ago added beta function that permits Quest headset homeowners to seize, share and go to one another in detailed 3D scans of real-life areas, can also be being faraway from Horizon Worlds. Meta says customers will nonetheless be capable to seize and examine Hyperscapes, “however sharing, inviting, and co-experiencing Hyperscapes with others will now not be supported.”
Whereas Meta’s original blog detailing its 2026 VR technique left open the likelihood {that a} dedicated Quest proprietor would possibly nonetheless be capable to entry some a part of Meta’s authentic VR metaverse, that apparently was by no means the corporate’s plan. Meta noticed sufficient “constructive momentum” specializing in supporting the cellular model of Horizon Worlds in 2025 that it made sense to fully abandon the VR one in 2026. Whereas that appears to run opposite to Meta’s positioning as a “metaverse company,” it does replicate the place the corporate is spending the most money and seeing the most (relative) success: AI and sensible glasses.
