Topic: horizon worlds
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Meta's Metaverse Aims for Global Domination
Meta aims to make Horizon Worlds a universal hub connecting VR, mobile, and social media, focusing on accessible 3D social experiences and overcoming past platform criticisms. The company has shifted to higher-quality content and introduced AI tools to simplify world-building, while expanding to ...
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Meta's Horizon Worlds Shooter Launches Beyond VR
Meta's new game *Super Strike* is launching exclusively on mobile and web, bypassing VR entirely, signaling a strategic shift away from focusing solely on XR. The company is diversifying Reality Labs to compete in the smartphone gaming market against platforms like Roblox and Fortnite, expanding ...
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Meta's Metaverse Moves Beyond Virtual Reality
Meta is pivoting its Horizon Worlds platform to become "almost exclusively mobile," decoupling it from VR hardware to pursue a larger audience and compete with platforms like Roblox. This strategic shift follows massive financial losses in Meta's Reality Labs division, nearing $80 billion since 2...
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Meta's Metaverse Gets a Major Visual Upgrade
Meta's Horizon Worlds is undergoing a major visual upgrade with a new game engine and creator tools to improve graphics and immersion. The platform introduces Meta Horizon Studio, an editor with generative AI for building VR worlds and an upcoming AI assistant for intuitive content creation. Desp...
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Meta's Metaverse Goes Beyond VR
Meta is separating its Horizon Worlds platform from its Quest VR hardware to focus on making the service accessible via mobile devices, while still expressing commitment to mixed reality development. This strategic shift follows massive financial losses in Meta's Reality Labs division, leading to...
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Meta's Metaverse Shifts Focus Beyond VR
Meta is expanding its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform from VR to mobile and desktop to reach a broader audience and compete with platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. The company is shifting its VR software focus to support third-party developers, as most VR usage is on external apps, while conti...
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Meta Slashes Metaverse Budget by 30%
Meta is reportedly planning significant budget and workforce cuts for its Metaverse division, signaling a major strategic recalibration away from its heavy investment in virtual reality. The move reflects a lack of market traction for its Metaverse products and investor pressure, as the costly in...
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Gorilla Tag's Success in the VR Market Downturn
**Gorilla Tag**, the most popular game on Meta's Quest platform, shattered its own record with 119,000 concurrent players, demonstrating its strong hold on a dedicated, youthful audience despite broader VR industry challenges. The game's success, including a merchandise empire nearing $10 million...
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Meta May Slash Metaverse Budget by a Third in 2024
Meta is reportedly planning significant budget cuts, potentially up to 30%, for its metaverse division, which includes Quest VR headsets and Horizon Worlds, signaling a strategic pivot away from this core vision. The company is shifting its focus toward artificial intelligence and AI superintelli...
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Meta CTO Hints at Connect 2025 Highlights
Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth teased major updates in wearables, AI, and metaverse software at Meta Connect 2025, sparking speculation about the company’s next innovations. Meta’s rumored smart glasses, codenamed Celeste, will feature a heads-up display and gesture-control wristband, targeting premi...
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Zuckerberg Bets Big on AI as the Future of Social Media
Meta's vision centers on AI becoming the primary creative engine for social media, generating personalized content and enabling new, immersive interactive formats beyond traditional media. The company is shifting its strategic emphasis from the metaverse to AI, positioning its virtual reality inv...
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