Meta says it will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16, and stop selling Quests and Horizon services to businesses from February 20
Meta continues to trickle out the bad news for VR. … Today, the company announced it's shutting that space down …
Meta rolls out link sharing to let users invite up to eight people into their Hyperscape virtual rooms via a Quest 3 or 3S headset, or the Horizon mobile app
The company is rolling out the ability to hang out in Hyperscape rooms with your friends.
Sources: Meta is prioritizing an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck for 2026 and likely won't ship a new traditional form factor Quest until 2027
headsets that are feature limited, yet purpose-built for gaming and lightweight applications. Forums: r/virtualreality : Meta Prioritizing Ultralight Headset With Puck For 2026 Over Traditional Quest ...
Meta is testing turning images on some Instagram feeds into 3D photos on the Instagram app for Quest, as well as a new Horizon OS interface called Navigator
this + Theater View creates a viewing experience like no other Also starting to roll out a more intuitive and simplified UI in Horizon OS that will make it easier to multitask and access your apps and...
Meta unveils AssetGen 2.0, an AI system that generates higher quality 3D assets compared to AssetGen 1.0, rolling out to Horizon creators later in 2025
David Heaney / UploadVR :
Apple releases visionOS 2.4 developer beta, adding Apple Intelligence, a guest mode, a Spatial Gallery app, an iPhone app for remote installs, and more
here's all the new features Wes Davis / The Verge : The Vision Pro is getting easier to share with guests, and adding a new iPhone app Aaron Brown / GB News : Apple unveils blockbuster Vision Pro upda...
Sony names CFO Hiroki Totoki as CEO, succeeding Kenichiro Yoshida, and PlayStation co-CEO Hideaki Nishino as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, from April 1
Hiroki Totoki is now the President and CEO. — Hideaki Nishino CEO of SIE. — Herman Hulst will continue to “lead the development, publishing and business operations of SIE's first party-content.” ...
Sources: Meta is in talks to license its Horizon software to Jio, which would use it to power a VR device
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest
Apple released the Vision Pro on February 2; 12 days later Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered his verdict: Ben Lang / Road to VR : Oculus Founder Reacts to Horizon OS News: “Hopefully it isn't too lat...
Fujitsu says it has a “moral obligation” to compensate hundreds of UK Post Office staff wrongly prosecuted from 1999 to 2015 due to bugs in its Horizon software
Because of this buggy software, 900 UK sub-postmasters and postmistresses were “prosecuted for theft and false accounting.” … LinkedIn: Steve Holloway : A moral obligation to compensate is one thing. ...