The VR version of Meta's Horizon Worlds platform is shutting down on June 15 as the company focuses its attention on its mobile app.

All 20 users are going to be severely disappointed.

  • dorumon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    3·
    34 分钟前

    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.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    6 小时前

    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.

    • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 小时前

      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.

      So VR Discord?

  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    107·
    12 小时前

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

  • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
    53·
    12 小时前

    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.

    • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      9 小时前

      They tried REALLY hard to get us to use it for meetings when I worked there, but nobody wanted to give up their legs ¯\(ツ)/¯

      • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        6 小时前

        I hope work didn’t buy headsets for everyone just for that

        • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 小时前

          Nah, they just told us to use our own if we had them. And of course, we couldn’t get a discount on them or anything, either.

  • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    11 小时前

    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.

    • rants_unnecessarily@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      10 小时前

      I loaded up my vr headset the other day for the first time in… A year? Maybe more.
      And I was surprised to find my own custom decorated room was gone and instead I had a balcony to that Horizon place.
      I could see little people running and jumping around and some portals or doorways and other stuff.

      Is that what they are shutting down?
      So what happens to VR headsets’ “home screen”?
      Does it go back to the way it was?

  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 小时前

    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.

    • AngryRedHerring@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 小时前

      I can’t wait for the day that I’m forced to switch from a discontinued Meta to a homebrewed OS that supports my library.

  • Tamps@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    11 小时前

    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.

  • _NetNomad@fedia.io
    10·
    11 小时前

    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?

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      11 小时前

      I don’t know why you’d think that, Human McHuman, YesImHuman, NotaLizard, NotaRobot, Normal Man, CEOsRPeople, MeritocracyWins are all owned by zuckerbot