The keynote featured a bonkers video of Zuckerberg jumping between various CGI-rendered depictions of the metaverse in virtual reality. He visited a spaceship where the company’s executives were playing poker, toured a tropical mansion with a floating fireplace and met CTO Andrew Bosworth’s Pixar-esque alien pet Oppy.

Meta‘s metaverse ambitions are hitting a crossroads. In a move that marks a dramatic shift in strategy, the tech giant is shutting down the VR version of Horizon Worlds on Quest. Once hailed as the future of digital interaction,

Horizon Worlds was supposed to help make virtual reality mainstream. But now Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is scaling down the app's VR support to focus on mobile users instead.

Meta is scaling back its metaverse ambitions after billions in losses, cutting jobs and shutting down Horizon Worlds VR support, while former employees blame internal mismanagement and unclear product direction.

Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.