Updates to Your Meta Quest Experience in 2026

I wasn't expecting it to be completely take off. Thats a surprise. I never liked it and never will so it can only affect me positively. Hope they bring back virtual home environments as well. Even if just optional. Its crazy to remove such a historical feature from quest. 

I HOPE YOUR MOBILE FAIL, THERE ARE A lot of builders and creators who were in horizon, and we have been cheated out of what we do . People have invested in headsets, and they love the virtual reality of building in them. What a shame, it's all about the money . Utopia VR is where I'm going.

Note that Samsung and Google just created Android XR and the Samsung Galaxy XR; Apple created the AVP for developers to play with; others are rumored to be creating new headsets; AR glasses seem to be increasing in popularity; and AI will make 3D XR application coding easier and the applications more complex and more capable and more interesting. META has not (not yet, I hope) ended their efforts to create a new communications device to replace the smart phone, they have just cancelled v 01 of the operations environment. (Windows itself was useless until V 03.)

Sadly it looks like the most advanced and capable VR platform is abandoning it's community public forum.
I know they have been having less than stellar profits and mixed VR hasn't lived up to hopes yet because it needs really significant technical advances to go mainstream, but they are getting close to having something actually worthwhile.
And the Horizon Worlds platform seemed a great first effort to actually get a global community involved. :(

This is horrible news. The gaming experience in the app is awful compared to the headset experience.

What became of the cyber Utopia envisioned in Ready Player One? A key aspect of that novel was the users ability (and rite-of-passage) was programming their own clubs and hangouts (notably H’s Basement) where friends could gather to socialize. 
The sandbox that Horizon Worlds provides for budding programmers and just people who want to hang out will be sorely missed and a feature I hope is reinstated.

This feels painful. While I never liked how Horizon Worlds cluttered up the UI with its "worlds as apps/games" approach, I did enjoy some of the experiences I had in HW. And my tween absolutely enjoyed Bobber Bay and Kaiju. Moreover, he's the sort to take it quite hard when unexpected changes arrive - when the Home space was revamped about 6 months ago, that was upsetting too.

I wonder if there exists research on VR nostalgia or even grief reactions by players; the power of VR is that we trick our brains into feeling like we're there but the more real feeling we make everything, the more real those feelings of loss are when things are taken away.

I just bought a 3S and now you’re telling me I wasted my money!!!!

LexiTree You make a good point. I do think that if one is getting overly sad and feels a sense of loss regarding the end of some features on a device, it's probably time to stop or at the least reduce exposure particularly for your child. Young people need to be careful not to lose the sense of reality by confusing it with a virtual world. It's important that they have real human friends and get involved in physical activities like sports, and not virtual sports. A sense of grief for the loss of a fantasy world isn't healthy. I appreciate you asking this question. Definitely food for thought for the parents here. 

I guess, there are some people who will be happy about that. 🙃 Already existing worlds remains in vr.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/1rxou9x/meta_cto_announces_horizon_worlds_is_staying_on/