Meta has announced that its social virtual world, Horizon Worlds, will shift toward a mobile-first experience, loosening its ties to the Quest virtual reality headset line. The decision, confirmed ...

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Meta’s latest developer update delivers a quiet but major shift in strategy: the company is moving its metaverse ambitions away from virtual reality and focusing almost entirely on mobile experiences.

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Meta announced today that it will divorce its Horizon Worlds social and gaming service—once promoted as the company’s first major step into the metaverse—from its Quest VR headset platform and digital ...

Since reporting its Q3 2025 earnings in late October, Magnificent Seven stock Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has been in a rut. Shares fell by more than 11% on Oct. 30 in reaction to those results, ...

Esports has a pattern of community behaviour which traditional sports are envious of: chat streams, watching parties, co-streamers, reactions live. With the help of VR and metaverse versions of spaces ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The metaverse has captured the attention of tech developers, marketers, and users alike. Envisioned as the digital world of the ...

Horizon Worlds is now going to be a platform that’s ‘almost exclusively mobile.’ Horizon Worlds is now going to be a platform that’s ‘almost exclusively mobile.’ is a senior reporter covering ...

Global extended reality headset and software maker Pico Immersive Pte Ltd., today unveiled Pico OS 6, the company’s most significant update to its virtual reality operating system to date and teased ...

Meta announced a major update for its immersive virtual world, Horizon Worlds, on Thursday that will see it leave the metaverse behind. The tech giant said it’s shifting focus for Horizon Worlds to be ...

Commentary: Meta's pushing its metaverse platform almost entirely to phones. It's the latest sign of a massive shift in the company's focus. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I ...