After betting heavily on the metaverse—and spending many billions building it—Meta recently pivoted hard.

Meta spent about $90B on metaverse projects, yet mainstream users stayed away. VR offices did not beat Teams or Zoom ...

Meta said it's shifting focus for Horizons Worlds to be "almost exclusively mobile" and that it will separate its Quest VR ...

Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, ...

Meta's Horizon Worlds pivots to mobile focus, scaling back VR efforts. This strategic shift positions it against platforms ...

In general, Meta frames many of its recent moves as a pivot away from first-party development of VR experiences to a focus on a third-party developer ecosystem, with stats like “86% of the effective ...

Meta is shifting Horizon Worlds away from VR and focusing almost entirely on mobile to reach a much larger audience.

Meta Platforms (META) is planning sharp budget cuts—up to 30%—in its metaverse operations, with layoffs likely as soon as January. META's metaverse spending reductions reflect underwhelming industry ...

Since reporting its Q3 2025 earnings in late October, Magnificent Seven stock Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has been in a rut. Shares fell by more than 11% on Oct. 30 in reaction to those results, ...

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Commentary: Meta's pushing its metaverse platform almost entirely to phones. It's the latest sign of a massive shift in the ...

Meta has announced that its social virtual world, Horizon Worlds, will shift toward a mobile-first experience, loosening its ...