- Meta Horizon Workrooms will be shut down from 16 February 2026
- Businesses didn’t seem to be using Quest headsets for VR meetings
- Commercial Meta Quest headsets are also being pulled – consumer versions remain
Meta is pulling the plug on its enterprise-focused VR hardware and services to focus on artificial intelligence, but its consumer-focused VR business will continue.
The company confirmed that it will shut down Horizon Workrooms, its VR workplace app, on February 16, 2026, after which all user data will be permanently deleted.
Meta Quest commercial headsets will also be pulled from sale, although the deadline for this is curiously four days later on February 20th.
“Meta Horizon has since evolved into a social platform that supports a wide range of productivity apps and tools,” the company wrote.
Although Meta Horizon lives on for consumers, business users are being asked to look to other collaboration platforms like Teams and Zoom to keep in touch with colleagues.
When it launched, Horizon Workrooms was described as an external collaboration platform in virtual reality. It launched in beta in August 2021 for Meta Quest 2 devices, but participants could also participate on the computer via regular video calls.
Horizon Workrooms were designed to add more context to calls, such as virtual meeting rooms filled with avatar-like personas of participants and screens for presentations.
Meta does not publish specific figures for Horizon Workrooms users, but it has previously reported The edge the entire Horizon platform had 300,000 users by early 2022. This seemed to be mostly attributable to Horizon Worlds, a community VR game.
Although hybrid work is here to stay, many reports describe worker burnout associated with excessive meetings. Perhaps quick video calls are less taxing than full-on VR experiences. They are definitely cheaper.
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