Many of Meta’s VR studios have been affected by the company’s Metaverse-focused layoffs. The company has closed three of its VR studios, including Armature, Senzaru, and Twisted Pixel. VR fitness app Supernatural will no longer be updated with fresh content.
The staff of Twisted Pixel, which released Marvel’s Deadpool VR in November, and Sanzaru, known for Wrath of AsgardPosted on social media about the closure. bloomberg reported the armature that brought resident Evil 4 Quest is also back in 2021 and is a popular VR fitness app divine Will no longer be updated with fresh content.
“Due to recent organizational changes at our studio, Supernatural will not be receiving new content or feature updates starting today,” the company wrote in an update on Facebook. The app will “remain active” for existing users.
A spokesperson for Meta confirmed the closure. “We said last month that we were shifting some of our investments from the metaverse to wearables,” the spokesperson said in a statement to Engadget. “This is part of that effort, and we plan to reinvest the savings to support the development of wearables this year.”
The cuts raise questions about Meta’s commitment to supporting the VR ecosystem in which it has invested heavily. The company hasn’t announced any new VR headsets since the Quest 3S in 2024, and last month it “paused” Asus and Lenovo’s planned Horizon OS headsets. Now, it is also pulling back in-house game development.
Meta is at least claiming internally that it is committed to supporting the industry. “These changes do not mean we are moving away from video games,” Oculus Studios director Tamara Sciammana wrote in the reported memo. bloomberg. “With this change we are shifting our investments to focus on our third-party developers and partners to ensure long-term sustainability.”
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Update, January 13, 2026, 2:13 PM PT: This post was updated for additional information about Supernatural.
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