Meta reduces its virtual reality division.
On Thursday, Meta confirmed The Verge that she had released an unpublished number of employed in her virtual reality and a hardware unit, a reality laboratory. Drinking is influenced by teams working on the hints of virtual reality and META divisions that created the popular application of virtual reality Fitness Supernatural.
A note on the formal group of the supernatural Facebook community with more than 112,000 members confirmed the redundancies.
“We are deeply saddened to share that (organizational) changes lead to the loss of some of our incredibly talented team members,” he read the post that was shared on Thursday.
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The post also states that the number of editions of training for supernatural weekly would be released due to the dismissal and the resulting smaller number of people working on the application.
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Meta was acquired as part of Unlimited to launch virtual reality for Supernatural, in February 2023 for more than $ 400 million after a successful fight against the government Antimonopoly Court.
In February, the technical company carried out a round of release -based release and reduced 5% of its global labor force of 72,000 people or about 3,600 employees. Some fired meta staff claimed that they had good performance and were surprised by the passing.
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According to Business Insider documents, cut -based cuts are influenced by at least 560 employees who are the world in the META virtual reality division. The memory received by Outlet in February from META CTO Andrew Bosworth noted that 2025 was a year of breaks for the company’s virtual reality.
“We have to manage the sale, maintain and commitment across the album,” Bosworth wrote in the note.
At the end of February, the meta burned nearly two dozen employees for the escape of internal notes, meetings of recordings and other information about the company into the press.
The offer of virtual reality meta is popular. Since February 2023, the meta has sold nearly 20 million headsets.
However, the efforts of Virtual Reality Meta are exhausting and have the results of $ 60 billion for the company since 2020. In its latest earnings reported in January, Meta noted that its reality laboratory unit created $ 4.97 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024.
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