What a comical waste of $80 Billion. Coulda bought two Twitters with that money instead and still come out on top.

The best comment on this I've seen...

It turns out, to the horror of techbros like Zuck, that the actual core demographics for VR worlds are not edgy cyberpunk antiheroes whose coolness could rub off on them, but femboy otaku who want to go drinking with friends while dressed as fabulous anime girls without even having leave their home and trans furries who want to party at visually spectacular virtual raves then pirate movies and have virtual cuddle piles.

Which... isn't very monetizable for normies.

...yet. 😈

Tbh I always thought it was unreleased and still being developed. My shock when I found out it was available and no one used it.

Came off like VRChat for idiots.

Reading the article, Horizon Worlds is not shutting down, just the VR access. Apparently they’ve moved it to apps you access on iPhone and Android. I see the appeal even less; that seems like Second Life mobile.

'Meta will shut down'

Hurray! oh? There's more to the title? Damn.

I tried Horizons once. Confused TF out of me what its purpose was other than to have random people screaming into mics and yelling n**** at you all the time.

It was not a fun experience and I never saw the point. I play VR games for VR experiences with actual fun in them.

Oh my God it's finally fucking over. I can use a Quest headset again without being inaudatited with ads essentially from Horizon Worlds. I can use the headset again without having to constantly hack it.

Are you telling me my virtual real estate is worthless?!

The company shared that it would go "all-in" on the mobile version of the platform in February.

TIL there's a non-VR version of Horizon. wasn't the whole point that it was VR? what's even left if you take out the VR, just voice chat?

20? Seems overly generous

Was this the thing with legless avatars from the uncanny valley? No idea how they wasted so much money - they'd have done better to employ a good gaming studio to make something fun that looked good. Could have saved billions there.

This is good news! I quite like the Quest 3 hardware, but I hated having Horizon rammed down my throat through the UI. I guess that’s because they were desperate to drive engagement.

Does this mean I don't have to see the hideous Meta Horizon avatar of myself I never asked for anymore? They should let me use my VRChat one in the home environment instead.

Come on now, Zuckerberg doesn’t have 20 accounts, 12 at the most

Ironically, this will end up as a upgrade to Meta Quest owners, as they no longer will have that bullshit shoved all over the "Home" ambient.

Even the Playstation Home lasted longer

I actually can't figure out how to access it. I have some portal in my home environment but I can't go through it.

Huh, there were 3 games that were kinda fun that people made, owell maybe theylport them to a different vr platform. Also guess i dont have a reason not to hack my quest niow

B-b-b-but they have legs!

Sad news for the eight people who still use it.

I’ll get a refund for all the adspace/meta real estate I bought near Snoop Dog for visibility though, right? I think that’s only fair.

Whilst not a big fan of Horizon Worlds (partly because of it's lack of availability when the Quest 3 launched in Australia, and apathy to bother switching my VPN to US), it's still a shame that a VR "3rd place" is shutting down.

So I won't have the annoying worlds mixed with my apps? Nice

I’ve been planning to sell my Q3 for a frame since it was rumored, but this move makes me want to get the Steam frame and keep the Q3 in the cupboard so I can pull it out every once in a while to gander at how it changes. I don’t expect to be impressed, more like morbid curiosity.