{"id":5298,"date":"2026-01-23T01:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:19:05","slug":"is-vr-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2026\/01\/23\/is-vr-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Is VR dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meta (Facebook) is laying off 10% of its Reality Labs group, including many in the VR space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/maybe-vr-doesnt-need-meta-after-all-2000713026\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/maybe-vr-doesnt-need-meta-after-all-2000713026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is VR &#8211; which was going to be the next great thing after 3D died &#8211; now on its own downhill slide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The thing is, there\u2019s a chance that VR was never really\u00a0<em>meant<\/em>\u00a0to be such a massive category. As great as the experience can be, these aren\u2019t devices that most people want to use all the time, and any company pitching one that way (looking at you,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-vision-pro-1851249913\">Apple Vision Pro<\/a>) hasn\u2019t really gained much traction. What if\u2014and hear me out\u2014VR wasn\u2019t meant to go mainstream? Maybe it\u2019s just a niche thing, and that\u2019s okay?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The market is spinning this story both ways &#8211; VR is now dead &#8211; or, may be its not quite dead &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/search?q=is%20virtual%20reality%20dead%3F&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US%3Aen\">https:\/\/news.google.com\/search?q=is%20virtual%20reality%20dead%3F&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US%3Aen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta lays off a lot of its VR employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d","category-virtual-reality-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5300,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}