Meta is laying off employees in Reality Labs

Meta has laid disconnected an unspecified fig of employees successful its Reality Labs division, a institution spokesperson confirmed.

The cuts affected teams moving successful Oculus Studios, Meta's in-house games part for Quest headsets, arsenic good arsenic immoderate employees progressive successful the company's hardware efforts, according to radical acquainted with the matter. Specific titles impacted by the layoffs see Supernatural, the VR fittingness crippled that Meta acquired for implicit $400 cardinal and successfully defended from a authorities antitrust lawsuit attempting to artifact the sale. A enactment connected the official Supernatural Facebook group states that "these changes are meant to assistance america enactment much efficiently connected what the aboriginal of fittingness could be."

"Some teams wrong Oculus Studios are undergoing shifts successful operation and roles that person impacted squad size," Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said successful a statement. "These changes are meant to assistance Studios enactment much efficiently connected aboriginal mixed world experiences for our increasing audience, portion inactive delivering large contented for radical today. We stay committed to investing successful mixed world experiences, including fittingness and games, and our thrust to present the champion experiences poss …

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