17/01/2026
Four years after Mark Zuckerberg staked his company’s future on the metaverse, Meta Platforms, Inc. is abandoning its vision of virtual reality as the next frontier of computing. The company has announced it will discontinue Horizon Workrooms, its flagship VR collaboration platform, on February 16, 2026, while simultaneously ceasing all sales of commercial Quest headsets and enterprise software by February 20.
The shutdowns arrive alongside sweeping layoffs that eliminated more than 1,000 positions—roughly 10% of the Reality Labs workforce—and closed three of Meta’s most accomplished VR game studios.
Meta has confirmed the closure of Armature Studio, Twisted Pixel, and Sanzaru Games, three studios responsible for acclaimed VR titles including Resident Evil 4 VR, Marvel’s Deadpool VR, and Asgard’s Wrath. Employees learned of the cuts on Tuesday, January 13, with developers posting their shock on social media throughout the day.
“I’ve just been laid off. It appears the entire Twisted Pixel games studio has been shut down. Sanzaru Games, too,” one former employee wrote on X.
Supernatural, the VR fitness application Meta acquired for $400 million in 2023 after battling the Federal Trade Commission, has been placed in maintenance mode with no new content or features planned. “Due to recent organizational changes to our Studio, Supernatural will no longer receive new content or feature updates starting today,” the company announced
