Meta Closes Horizon Worlds After $80B Reality Labs Bet — Consumer VR Social Vision Abandoned

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Meta is shutting down Horizon Worlds, its consumer VR social platform, marking the end of a multi-year strategic detour. The r/singularity thread hit 7,500 upvotes and 1,166 comments, the day's highest-engagement post. Counter-posts correctly note the $80B figure covers all Reality Labs including AR glasses R&D where Ray-Ban Smart Glasses have succeeded — but the core consumer metaverse thesis is being abandoned regardless, freeing Meta to concentrate AI and hardware investment on the glasses platform.