{"id":47818,"date":"2025-04-24T23:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47818\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T23:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:06:11","slug":"meta-lays-off-employees-working-on-vr-in-reality-labs-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47818\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta lays off employees working on VR in Reality Labs division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presents Orion AR Glasses as he makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event at the company&#8217;s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/META\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta<\/a> has laid off employees in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/26\/facebook-creates-exec-team-to-work-on-metaverse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reality Labs<\/a> division that is tasked with developing virtual reality, augmented reality and related wearable devices.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts affected an unspecified number of employees working in the division&#8217;s Oculus Studios unit, which develops VR and AR games and content for Meta&#8217;s Quest VR headsets, a company spokesperson told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some teams within Oculus Studios are undergoing shifts in structure and roles that have impacted team size,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;These changes are meant to help Studios work more efficiently on future mixed reality experiences for our growing audience, while still delivering great content for people today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Employees working on the Supernatural VR workout app were impacted, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re deeply saddened to share that these changes have resulted in the loss of some of our incredibly talented team members,&#8221; the company said in a statement posted to the Supernatural official Facebook group. &#8220;Their contributions have been instrumental in shaping our journey and yours, and their absence will be deeply felt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cuts to Reality Labs come after Meta in February\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/02\/14\/zuckerbergs-rightward-policy-shift-hits-meta-staffers-targets-apple.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laid off 5% of its overall workforce<\/a> that it\u00a0deemed to be its lowest performers.<\/p>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s Reality Labs division logged an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/01\/29\/metas-reality-labs-posts-5-billion-loss-in-fourth-quarter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">operating loss of $4.97 billion<\/a> while scoring $1.1 billion in sales during the fourth quarter, the company said in January.<\/p>\n<p>The social media company reports earnings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Verge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/meta\/655835\/meta-layoffs-reality-labs-vr-supernatural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> the layoffs earlier on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2025\/04\/15\/mark-zuckerberg-takes-witness-stand-on-first-day-of-antitrust-trial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Zuckerberg takes witness stand on first day of antitrust trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/108131926-17447134621744713460-39369407471-1080pnbcnews.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg takes witness stand on first day of antitrust trial\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presents Orion AR Glasses as he makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[3083,3085,3082,14083,15251,547,182,53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-47818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-breaking-news-technology","9":"tag-business-news","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-layoffs","12":"tag-meta-platforms-inc","13":"tag-mobile","14":"tag-social-media","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-virtual-reality","19":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114395453121056775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}