00:00Just 24 hours after announcing it would shut down Horizon Worlds for Quest VR headsets,
00:05Meta reversed course on Wednesday, saying the platform will remain available for the foreseeable future,
00:11following an outcry from fans.
00:13The partial reversal comes with caveats.
00:15Existing games built on the Horizon Unity engine will stay in VR, but no new games will be added.
00:22And Meta made clear its primary focus is shifting to the mobile version of Horizon Worlds,
00:27powered by the newer Horizon engine.
00:30The about-face highlights the ongoing struggles of Meta's metaverse ambitions,
00:34as Horizon Worlds has never managed to break into the mainstream,
00:38reportedly peaking at only a few hundred thousand monthly users,
00:42compared to Roblox's 100 million daily active users.
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