Horizon Worlds, Meta’s first cross at a metaverse, will probably 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 completely 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 now not be listed within the Quest’s Retailer and headset house owners will probably be unable to go to worlds like “Horizon Central, Occasions Enviornment, Kaiju and Bobber Bay.” Then, after June 15, the app will probably be faraway from Quest headsets and worlds will probably be fully unavailable to go to in VR. From that time on, the simplest place to go to Horizon Worlds will probably be within the Meta Horizon app for iOS and Android.
Moreover, Hyperscape Seize, a lately added beta characteristic that enables Quest headset house owners to seize, share and go to one another in detailed 3D scans of real-life places, can be being faraway from Horizon Worlds. Meta says customers will nonetheless have the ability to seize and consider Hyperscapes, “however sharing, inviting, and co-experiencing Hyperscapes with others will now not be supported.”
Whereas Meta’s authentic weblog detailing its 2026 VR technique left open the chance {that a} dedicated Quest proprietor may nonetheless have the ability 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 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 firm,” it does mirror the place the corporate is spending probably the most cash and seeing probably the most (relative) success: AI and good glasses.
