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Meta’s Horizon Workrooms, the virtual reality platform for business meetings, is set to shut down next month.
First launched in 2021, before Facebook rebranded as Meta, Horizon Workrooms introduced a virtual space where colleagues could meet when wearing VR headsets. This launched near the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many workers were adapting to remote meetings.
Now, Meta is giving up on the project to refocus on wearables. On a support page spotted by The Verge, Meta says Horizon Workrooms will be discontinued on Feb. 16, 2026.
After this date, all access to Workrooms and the data within will be deleted. If you have data you want to save, Meta recommends logging into your account by the end of the month. There doesn't appear to be a way to mass export existing data, though.
Meta recommends alternative VR collaboration apps through its Horizon Store, such as Arthur, Microsoft Teams Immersive, and Zoom Workplace.
The brand is also discontinuing sales of its business virtual reality services, including its headsets and software. A separate help page explains that Meta Quest headset commercial sales will end on Feb. 20, 2026.
As part of the move, Meta is giving away its Horizon managed services licenses to its existing business customers. It’ll also support those services on the Quest 3 and 3S headsets until Jan. 4, 2030.
The company aims to recalibrate its metaverse efforts to focus on wearable platforms. Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, reportedly sent a memo to employees outlining the plan to refocus, Bloomberg reported.
The note said, “With the larger potential user base and the fastest growth rate today, we are shifting teams and resources almost exclusively to mobile to continue to accelerate adoption there.”
This comes in a week when some of Meta's virtual reality game studios have been reportedly shuttered. The brand has yet to publicly acknowledge layoffs, but reports say it cut 10% of its metaverse division. That's likely around 10,000 jobs.
Posts on social media from former employees suggest the shutdown of Armature Studio, Twisted Pixel, and Sanzaru.