Meta has decided to keep Horizon Worlds working in VR. Horizon Worlds VR support will end on June 15, 2026, after which the service will be available only on web and mobile platforms.

"We have decided, just today in fact, that we will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR," said Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer.

Only games and experiences that already support VR in Horizon Worlds will continue to support VR, while new games will be released exclusively on mobile. The majority of the Horizon Worlds team's development focus will be on mobile instead of VR. "There's a much bigger audience in mobile," Bosworth said. "Switching the Horizon Worlds development team's focus to mobile at VR's expense was a pretty easy way to increase their velocity."

Starting March 31, 2026, Horizon Worlds will no longer be available in the Quest store on Meta Quest VR headsets. Meta will remove some Horizon Worlds–specific perks, including Meta Credits, avatars, and certain digital clothes and in-world purchases. Users of Horizon Worlds will not be able to create new spaces, but existing user-created worlds will continue to be supported.

In February 2026, Meta announced it would shift the focus of Horizon Worlds to be almost exclusively mobile. In February 2026, Meta laid off 10 percent of employees in its Reality Labs VR division. In January 2026, Meta laid off 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division.

Meta invested billions of dollars in Horizon Worlds. Horizon Worlds was almost immediately populated primarily by children after launch. Meta arranged partnerships with Imagine Dragons and Coldplay for virtual concerts in Horizon Worlds.

"Meta's pivot on Horizon Worlds is the predicted and inevitable outcome of a big, risky bet that never found an audience," said Mike Proulx, Vice President and Research Director. "You can't build a mass social platform reliant on hardware most people neither own nor want to wear for more than short bursts." "Advertisers follow their target audiences. And those audiences were never inside Horizon Worlds," Proulx said.

"I wonder how long it continues. 'The foreseeable future' does not sound like a ringing endorsement that this is going to stay around forever," said Jitesh Ubrani, Research Manager.