Here’s why Meta is shutting down Echo VR

Last week, Meta announced that it would be shutting down the widely praised VR game Echo VR in August. Since then, Meta CTO Andrew Boz" Bosworth has shared some further details about the shutdown, and former Meta consulting CTO John Carmack has weighed in about the decision.

In an Instagram AMA, Bosworth said that Echo VR's playerbase, while loyal as all get out," had fallen into the low ten thousands," as transcribed by UploadVR. Unfortunately, keeping things alive takes work," Bosworth said. This is not like a return on investment money standpoint; it's just those resources could be put to other uses that I think will be useful to the now tens of millions of people who are in VR." He also said Meta has some regulatory...

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