Horizon Worlds, Meta’s first cross at a metaverse, will probably be inaccessible through 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 brand new submit on its group boards, Meta detailed when the VR model of Horizon Worlds will probably be deprecated.
By March 31, Meta says particular person Horizon Worlds and Occasions will not be listed within the Quest’s Retailer and headset house owners will probably be unable to go to worlds like “Horizon Central, Occasions Area, Kaiju and Bobber Bay.” Then, after June 15, the app will probably be faraway from Quest headsets and worlds will probably be utterly unavailable to go to in VR. From that time on, the best place to go to Horizon Worlds will probably be within the Meta Horizon app for iOS and Android.
Moreover, Hyperscape Seize, a just lately added beta function that enables Quest headset house owners to seize, share and go to one another in detailed 3D scans of real-life areas, can be being faraway from Horizon Worlds. Meta says customers will nonetheless be capable to seize and consider Hyperscapes, “however sharing, inviting, and co-experiencing Hyperscapes with others will not be supported.”
Whereas Meta’s authentic weblog detailing its 2026 VR technique left open the likelihood {that a} dedicated Quest proprietor may 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 “optimistic momentum” specializing in supporting the cell model of Horizon Worlds in 2025 that it made sense to utterly abandon the VR one in 2026. Whereas that appears to run opposite to Meta’s positioning as a “metaverse firm,” it does mirror the place the corporate is spending essentially the most cash and seeing essentially the most (relative) success: AI and good glasses.
