Meta isn’t closing down its VR metaverse after all — it’ll stay live in a limited capacity for ‘the foreseeable future’

• Meta’s CTO says Horizon Worlds will live on in VR, for now
• You won’t be able to make new worlds, but can enjoy existing games
• He says it will remain live in VR in this way for the “forseeable future”

It seems reports of Horizon Worlds‘ death were greatly exaggerated — Meta has announced it won’t be killing the VR version of its metaverse after all.

Earlier this week, Meta announced that it would be ending support for the VR version of Horizon Worlds and making it into a mobile-only app, sending out an email to all Quest users that they only had until June 15 to enjoy their favorite created worlds before they’d be gone forever.

Now, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth has said they’ll be keeping the app live for VR users in a limited capacity after all. In response to someone saying they were “heartbroken” about the closure, Bosworth said in an Instagram AMA, “I have a little bit of good news here for you.”

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“We have decided, just today in fact, that we will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR for existing games,” he revealed, though Bosworth added that new games won’t arrive in VR, and said that, for Meta, “most of our energy is going towards mobile” because “that’s where most of the consumer and creator energy already was.”