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Earlier this year, we shared an update on our renewed focus for VR and Horizon. We are separating the two platforms so each can grow with greater focus, and the Horizon Worlds platform will become a mobile-only experience. This separation will extend across our ecosystem, including our mobile app. To support this vision, we are making the following changes to streamline your Quest experience throughout 2026.
- Meta Horizon Worlds: By March 31, 2026, Horizon Worlds and Events will no longer appear in the Store on Quest. Also, Horizon Central, Events Arena, Kaiju, and Bobber Bay worlds will no longer be available in VR. You can still jump into your other favorite worlds in VR until June 15, 2026, after which the Horizon Worlds app will be removed from Quest, and Worlds will no longer be available in VR. After June 15, you can jump into all your favorite mobile-optimized worlds on the Meta Horizon mobile app.
- Meta Horizon Hyperscape Capture (Beta): By March 24, 2026, viewing Hyperscape captures is moving out of Horizon Worlds. Your existing captures will remain viewable within the Hyperscape Capture (Beta) app and the companion Preview app, which are available in your Quest app library. You can continue capturing new Hyperscapes, but sharing, inviting, and co-experiencing Hyperscapes with others will no longer be supported.
- Meta Horizon Plus (MH+) Perks: By March 31, 2026, Horizon-specific perks — including Meta Credits, Digital Clothing, Avatars and In-World Purchases — will be removed from the subscription. Your core MH+ gaming benefits and monthly games will not be affected.
We continue to invest in making your Quest experience better — recent updates have brought new features like Surface Keyboard and Touchpad, customizable app and window positioning, and we're continuing to roll out Navigator, our modernized interface, to more users.
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> MetaStoreHelpwrote:.....until June 15, 2026, after which the Horizon Worlds app will be removed from Quest, and Worlds will no longer be available in VR
Worlds won't cluttering the library anymore....so nice!🙌😃
Overall this is great news. Well done!!
Can we still build worlds and clothes after June 15th for the mobile only version ?
This is terrible for the countless people whom have a safe space within VR worlds. Although I know many are happy about the move off headsets, and the countless bugs Worlds in VR has but I am not sure getting rid of the software entirely off headsets is the best move. It should be available should users want to download and keep a vr version on their headsets from the store. This especially effecting those who cannot socialise outside their home, whom have found their community of people they can trust and confide, even learn and gain confidence. It was and still is such a positive thing to see. Even for builders spending hours creating VR worlds/games and clothing. Again shows Meta is more interested in money over inclusion and community. Frankly I just want hardware that doesnt crash every 20 minutes and be able to enjoy what I and others have created.
Personally I think its terrible i don't even play any of the world's on my phone. Due to the fact that they crash every 20 minute and honestly, the whole reason I got that headset was to be able to play the games and worlds on there. However, there aren't many good downloadable apps or a lot of them cost money.So taking away the world to on the headset, kind of defeats the whole purpose... very stupid
* [](https://communityforums.atmeta.com/users/Sneaky_Weasel92/1628341) Find whoever you hang out with in VR worlds and find a suitable world in VRChat to meet, this is what im transitioning to now. Meta dont make things better.
> You can still jump into your other favorite worlds in VR until June 15, 2026, after which the Horizon Worlds app will be removed from Quest, and Worlds will no longer be available in VR.
Man... for all of us who knew about all the good worlds that are fun for adults (where the screaming kids simply arent allowed at all) this is sad news.
The Quest Store should've never displayed every single individual Horizon World as if they were games, and HorizonOS will be better without the feed... but those could've been corrected withoutentirely killing off Worlds in VR.
Worlds should be one (optional) app in our list of apps. No more and no less.
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The mobile version of the meta horizons world games are terrible, they have to many issues, crash's and glitches.
* [](https://communityforums.atmeta.com/users/ALionlikeMane/1536875) Yeah, I've tried to use the mobile version. It's extremely laggy at best. And I've noticed that if the world has specialized controls (like Dream Leaper or Survive) then you can't count on the controls to generate properly.
- This isn't fair at all. It gives me a bad taste in my mouth for Meta in general. I really feel like I want to sell my oculus and go to a different system. They should've kept both mobile and VR. VR experience is 10 times better and that is what is really disappointing that they would actually remove that
I'm kinda pissed off about it. Multi user Hyperscape Capture is likely the greatest technology you have and your just going to discontinue it?? What the hell. It's the holodeck! Not to mention Worlds crashes on a flagship Google Pixel 10 after 2 minutes. Who the hell is using worlds on their phone other than little kids? And who is making these garbage decisions? - At least give us some sort of export option to download our files and import them into VR Chat. It's like my whole career at creating VR gaussian splats never got a chance!