Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

Meta will also no longer sell its headsets and software as a service for businesses, another help page reads: “We are ...

After layoffs, Meta shuts down Workrooms & rethinks metaverse

The parent company of Facebook, Meta, has announced that it will discontinue the metaverse for work, too. The Horizon ...

Where Meta's metaverse vision went wrong

When Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook to Meta (META) in October 2021, the founder and CEO presented the name change as the ...
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Meta pulls the plug on its metaverse for work

Meta has announced the discontinuation of its work-oriented metaverse, Horizon Workrooms, effective from February 16, 2026.

Well, there goes the metaverse!

The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ...

What was the metaverse?

Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on.

Meta lays off more than 1,000 employees from metaverse division

More than 1,000 Meta employees — the ones who brought you the metaverse — are now looking for work. The company behind ...
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Meta layoffs in 2026 hit Reality Labs, spark wave of ‘Open to Work’ posts

Meta’s 2026 layoffs hit Reality Labs, closing VR studios and flooding LinkedIn with #OpenToWork posts amid strategic shifts.
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The metaverse as we knew it failed, but it's being resurrected for new worlds

While the metaverse is often seen as a joke in 2025 because of low user counts and poor financial performance (take Meta's Reality Labs division and its continued losses, estimated by Statista at $70 ...