Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Meta will keep Horizon Worlds in VR “for existing games”, a day after Meta said Quest owners will lose access from June 15
VR Worlds will be available for “foreseeable future” — One day after announcing the wind-down of its Horizon …
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- ICYMI this from my AMA yesterday. We've decided to retain existing Horizon Worlds in VR for the foreseeable future. I know this is a bit of whiplash just a few days after we announced something different, but Horizon has some real fans in the VR community and they encouraged us to reconsider our decision. @boztank · Andrew Bosworth
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Facebook Parent Company Meta Is Shutting Down Their Metaverse VR Game Horizon Worlds
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Kevin Roose
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“The Metaverse” was a 5-year experiment conducted by Harvard University for the purpose of transferring wealth from Meta shareholders to employees who pretended it was fun to go to meetings in a VR headset. We thank you for your participation.
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@paultassi
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Imagine renaming your company something you now have to routinely admit is an utter failure every few months with layoffs and shutdowns
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@canteverdie
@canteverdie
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mark zuckerberg should get the olympic gold medal of burning money away
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@kyliebytes
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i guess the idea just didn't have legs
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@anisha_moonka
Anish Moonka
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Mark Zuckerberg sold 7 million AI glasses last year while everyone was laughing at his metaverse. The $80 billion number in this tweet is slightly off. Reality Labs has posted $84 billion in total losses since 2020, per Meta's Q4 2025 earnings. But here's what the dunks leave
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@wdavidmarx
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I know that vaporware / pivoting is core to Silicon Valley but how many more data points do we need to remember Zuck fundamentally as a serial bullshitter whose grand announcements and launches never ever amounted to anything? He acquired/copied all of his successes after FB.
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@willsolfiac
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I'd love to read a good explanation of how on earth Facebook and Zuckerberg thought that going all in on the ‘metaverse’ was ever a sound business decision. Did he develop a cocaine habit or something? Can it really be that the guy who was so smart with facebook, instagram and
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@malonebarry
Barry Malone
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In honour of the closure of the metaverse, I would like to re-up one of the worst videos ever recorded.
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@abhijitwt
Abhijit
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> be Zuckerberg. > rename Facebook to Meta in 2021. > declare the metaverse is the future. > pour $80B+ into Reality Labs. > build Horizon Worlds. > legless avatars, empty lobbies, low retention. > insist this is the next internet. > 2024-2025. > losses pile up. > investors get […
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Dean Wampler
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I would have taken a fraction of the $80B Zuckerberg spent on this effort to tell him years ago that it was doomed from the beginning, but he didn't ask... [embedded post]
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@maeve
@maeve
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“capitalism is the most efficient system btw” [embedded post]
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@shadowmanos
Manos Nikolaidis
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When you have a product that most people hate, but are stuck with it for various reasons, so it prints money for you to waste. [embedded post]
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Ed Zitron
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i was actively mocked in 2021 when I said the metaverse was bullshit, and in 2023 when i said the metaverse is dead. This should've been a wake-up moment for the tech media that they were being had, but nothing has changed as a result — www.businessinsider.com/metaverse- de...…
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makes ya wonder how that AI thing is gonna turn out for him [embedded post]
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@heaney555
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I have some questions as to how exactly decisions are made at Meta.
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@reckless
Nilay Patel
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Incredible all timer hero for us today (and great Lina Khan interview by @vicmsong.bsky.social!) www.theverge.com/report/89682... [image]
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@scottstein
Scott Stein
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Good story on the mistakes that happen when big tech buys things and then abandons them by @vicmsong.bsky.social www.theverge.com/report/89682...
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@boztank
Boz
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ICYMI this from my AMA yesterday. We've decided to retain existing Horizon Worlds in VR for the foreseeable future. I know this is a bit of whiplash just a few days after we announced something different, but Horizon has some real fans in the VR community and they encouraged us