Meta is closing down its VR assembly rooms as a part of its wider cull

Meta is killing the standalone Workrooms app on February 16, 2026. The corporate introduced Workrooms as a digital actuality area the place groups can meet and collaborate in an immersive setting when it launched the product. Now Meta says its Horizon platform has advanced sufficient to help “a variety of productiveness apps and instruments,” so it “made the choice to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone app.”

The corporate not too long ago slashed its spending on the metaverse and began the method to lay off greater than 1,000 staff from its Actuality Labs division. Attributable to these layoffs and organizational adjustments, it closed three of its VR studios. Actuality Labs had misplaced greater than $70 billion since 2021, and Meta informed Engadget that it had determined to shift a few of its investments from the metaverse in the direction of wearables, comparable to its AI-powered Ray-Ban good glasses. The corporate can also be discontinuing Horizon managed providers, its subscription service that helps organizations handle their Quest headsets, in February.

Customers will now not be capable of entry the Workrooms app or any of their knowledge in it beginning on February 16. Meta is permitting individuals to obtain their knowledge in the event that they want it till that date.