Meta is reducing its virtual reality division.
Meta confirmed Ruckus On Thursday that he had discontinued an unknown number of employees in his virtual reality and hardware unit, reality labs. The teams working on the game for Meta’s Quest Virtual Reality Headset and Division created the popular virtual reality fitness app supernatural.
A Comment A Facebook group of over 112,000 members confirmed the trimming on the official supernatural community.
“We are deeply saddened to share (organizational) changes, resulting in a loss of some of our incredibly talented team members,” the post, which was shared on Thursday, read.
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The post has been mentioned that the number of workouts released on supernatural per week will be reduced and the number of people working on the app will be reduced as a result.
A user plays supernatural. Photo by Randy Shopshire/Getty Image for Meta Platforms Technologies LLC
Meta Acquired Within unlimited, virtual reality startup behind supernatural, over $ 400 million in February 2023 Successful fight A government mistrust suit.
The tech company held a round of performance-based pruning in February, with 5% of the 72,000-individual global workforce or about 3,600 employees. Some removed meta workers claimed that they had a track record of good performance and were surprised by the trimming.
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Performance-based cuts affected at least 560 employees who worked in the virtual reality division of Mata, according to the documents seen Commercial insiderA memorandum Obtained The Meta CTO from Andrew Bosworth said by the outlet in February that 2025 was a make-or-break year for the company’s virtual reality efforts.
Bosworth wrote in the memo, “We need to sell, retention and engagement in the board.”
By the end of February, Mata had fired two dozen employees for the press leaking, recording and other company information.
Meta’s virtual reality offerings are popular. Meta was sold Close to 20 million Quest headset by February 2023. It released in $ 499 Quest 3 October 2023 And sold at least A million units Virtual reality headset by June 2024.
However, Meta’s virtual reality efforts are expensive and resulted in as a result $ 60 billion In the loss for the company since 2020. Latest income reportReleased in January, Meta said its reality labs unit sold $ 1.1 billion in sales in the fourth quarter of 2024, but recorded an operational loss of $ 4.97 billion.
