
Rec Room recently reported that it has 3 million monthly VR users, and even that is a small percentage of its overall user base, which is primarily active on smartphones and consoles. Meta’s prestige project will need many millions of users to challenge VR competitors like Rec Room and VRChat and develop relevance outside the VR niche market. When Horizon’s web version launches, the Horizon platform fee will only be 25%-a much lower rate compared to other similar world-building platforms. In February, information leaked that Meta’s Horizon platform has 300,000 monthly active users, which includes services besides Horizon Worlds (see also: How does Meta’s Metaverse stack up against the competition?). There, Horizon Worlds launched in December 2021. Currently, Horizon Worlds supports the Meta Quest 2 and Oculus Rift (S) VR headsets and is only accessible from North America.

Meta’s head of technology Andrew Bosworth hinted at this in a tweet, but did not give a launch date.
