{"id":1234678,"date":"2025-02-25T06:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234678"},"modified":"2025-02-25T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:44:16","slug":"meta-abandons-in-headset-building-tool-for-horizon-worlds-marking-a-shift-in-expected-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234678","title":{"rendered":"Meta Abandons In-Headset Building Tool for \u2018Horizon Worlds\u2019, Marking a Shift in Expected Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta released a new\u00a0Desktop Editor for Horizon Worlds<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in preview, giving world creators a Unity-style game development platform for the first time. The PC-based editor is designed to be more robust, and make world creation easier and higher quality than its previous Quest-native VR editor, which Meta says it\u2019s now deprecating.<\/p>\n

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Meta needs broader reach to make Horizon Worlds<\/em>\u00a0a success, which it ostensibly\u00a0hasn\u2019t<\/em> found on Quest thus far. While the company made its metaverse platform accessible to mobile and desktop in 2023, bringing non-VR users to the platform for the first time since its initial beta launch in 2021, the maker-centric platform is still largely a VR-first experience. But that appears to be changing.<\/p>\n

The newly released Desktop Editor allows developers familiar with traditional game engines, such as Unity, to create and publish worlds. Meta says in its developer resources<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe VR creation tools \u2026 are legacy tools. We strongly recommended moving your development process to the Desktop editor and other PC creation tools.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Granted, Horizon World<\/em> creators can still preview scenes in VR while tethered to the desktop-based editor, although it\u2019s not a prerequisite.\u00a0In short,\u00a0Horizon Worlds\u00a0<\/em>users don\u2019t need a VR headset, and now, neither do world creators.<\/p>\n

This follows a report earlier this month of a leaked memo from Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth<\/a>, who said the mobile version of the app \u201cabsolutely has to break out for our long term plans to have a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently, Meta announced last week it\u2019s launching a $50 million fund<\/a> to boost content creation in Horizon Worlds<\/em>, aiming to drive engagement as self-contained VR studios struggle.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Meta\u2019s strategy signals it\u2019s not only doubling down on Horizon Worlds<\/em> by tossing out more money to developers and<\/em> giving them tools they\u2019re mostly already familiar with, but it\u2019s also looking to seize a rapidly growing cohort of\u00a0younger Quest users<\/a>. Younger players tend to favor free-to-play content and socially-driven experiences\u2014something Meta likely hopes to capture with Horizon Worlds.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The post Meta Abandons In-Headset Building Tool for \u2018Horizon Worlds\u2019, Marking a Shift in Expected Growth<\/a> appeared first on Road to VR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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