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Meta announced it’s discontinuing Horizon Workrooms next month, its productivity-focused VR platform, marking another step in the company’s ongoing restructuring of its VR and metaverse strategy.

The first VR service that Meta will shut down is called Horizon Workrooms. Introduced in 2021, it provides a virtual conference room that can be accessed using the Facebook parent’s VR headsets.

Meta is switching off Horizon Workrooms as a stand-alone app next month. Workrooms was launched for remote teams to collaborate in virtual reality. The move comes as Meta is laying off workers in its ...

Meta’s major investment in Metaverse has not been a great success, and recently more than 1,000 people working on the project were laid off. The latest news is that the social VR platform Horizon ...

Meta continues to trickle out the bad news for VR. Meta continues to trickle out the bad news for VR. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent ...

Wait, no more virtual sitting in a virtual chair, chatting with virtual people with a VR headset on, for hours? Bummer.

Two months before it rebranded as Meta, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rolled out Horizon Workrooms as the metaverse for work, a virtual room where colleagues were meant to “collaborate” without… Two ...

Meta has made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone appIllustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Meta is discontinuing its workplace virtual reality app ...