Meta may cut down the metaverse group within Reality Labs (Report)

Executive summary

Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:

• Top stories: Meta may cut down the metaverse group within Reality Labs (more below).

• Event: We are hosting an event on 15 January in London, based around VR films! Come along if you wish; and if you are well-suited to speak, please email tom (at) immersivewire (dot) com.

• This week’s stories: Meta may have pushed back the release of its glasses to polish them further (more below)

Top stories

Meta may cut down the metaverse group within Reality Labs.

• How much? Cuts may be as much as 30% and start as early as January, according to Bloomberg. No decision has been made yet.

• Why? Resources may flow to other areas of Reality Labs, including AI glasses.

This week’s stories

• Aalto University’s researcher Joel Zika has released The Grammar of Attention, a collection of twenty-five essays exploring how presence, agency, and embodiment are shaping XR as an emerging artistic medium.

• Meta may have pushed back the release of its glasses to polish them further.

• VirtualAge has announced Guardians Planetfall, a new tactical co-op VR shooter coming to Quest 3/3S and SteamVR Early Access in 2026, expanding the studio’s sci-fi universe with squad-based combat across planets, orbital battlefields, and space installations.

• VR Factory Games will launch Freaky Lab VR on Meta Quest headsets on 11 December, introducing a humorous laboratory-themed experience as the studio’s fourth title on the platform.

• nDreams launched Oh My Galaxy! for Samsung Galaxy XR, using the headset’s mixed-reality features to turn players’ homes into a hand-tracked interplanetary battleground.

Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works at Accenture. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.

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