{"id":294572,"date":"2026-01-20T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/294572\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:57:08","slug":"meta-has-discontinued-its-metaverse-for-work-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/294572\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Meta will also no longer sell its headsets and software as a service for businesses, <a href=\"https:\/\/work.meta.com\/help\/1964851097790493\/?helpref=uf_share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another help page reads<\/a>: \u201cWe are stopping sales of Meta Horizon managed services and commercial SKUs of Meta Quest, effective February 20, 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/861295\/meta-reality-labs-layoffs-shift-to-wearables\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta just laid off<\/a> roughly 10 percent of its entire Reality Labs division, over 1,000 jobs. In the aftermath, it\u2019s becoming increasingly clear that Zuckerberg has changed his mind about what the word \u201cmetaverse\u201d actually means. Mobile yes, smart glasses yes, but maybe not VR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">What\u2019s next, Horizon Worlds? Maybe Meta will draw the line there, because it\u2019s one of the few VR experiences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/9\/25\/23887494\/meta-horizon-worlds-web-mobile-vr-super-rumble\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta has made available on mobile phones<\/a> too; Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth already said the company\u2019s Horizon team will \u201cdouble down on bringing the best Horizon experiences and AI creator tools to mobile\u201d in a memo obtained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-13\/meta-begins-jobs-cuts-after-shifting-focus-from-metaverse-to-phones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Bloomberg writes that \u201cMeta will continue to develop the metaverse, but with a focus on mobile phones instead of the fully immersive VR headsets that the company initially imagined.\u201d To be clear, the term \u201cmetaverse\u201d was coined by Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson to describe a fully immersive shared VR world, but I suppose mobile makes sense if you consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24065901\/fortnite-metaverse-disney-epic-partnership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fortnite to be a metaverse<\/a> and don\u2019t need the \u201cfully immersive\u201d part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It appears that Meta Workrooms will shut down abruptly on February 16th, to the point that \u201cany data associated with Workrooms will be deleted.\u201d The company recommends trying Arthur, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom Workplace instead and also writes that the Meta Quest Remote Desktop app will stick around if you want to emulate multiple virtual monitors in your headset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">For Meta Horizon managed services, the company writes that existing customers can continue to access those through January 4th, 2030, and that licenses will be free after February 16th of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta will also no longer sell its headsets and software as a service for businesses, another help page&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[18,19,17,1722,5,753,82,286,287,288],"class_list":{"0":"post-294572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-meta","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-virtual-reality","16":"tag-virtualreality","17":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115929431578329434","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}