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Meta reconsiders shutting down its unpopular metaverse game world

9to5Mac·@ZacHall·2 months ago
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Meta has pulled the plug on its plan to, well, pull the plug on a big but unpopular part of its metaverse. As TechCrunch points out, Meta’s Andrew “Boz” Bosworth announced during an Instagram Ask Me Anything session that the company has decided not to take its Horizon Worlds online multi-player game offline. Meta will still put its energy toward Horizon Worlds on mobile, which arrived in April 2022, but the VR space where the game originated in 2021 will remain online for the foreseeable future. However, Boz says that Meta will still continue to invest in the mobile space and not VR when it comes to Horizon Worlds, specifically. We have decided, just today in fact, that we will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR for existing games to support the fans who’ve reached out, like yourself, who really care about that. Those, the Horizon Unity runtime games, they’re not gonna work on mobile. They’ll just be working on VR. We’re not bringing new games.…

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