Meta Horizon+ is rumored to be changing its name to Meta VR+ and may start including movies in addition to games with the subscription price.
Meta’s quest (ahem) to distance itself from the Horizon era is in full swing, and the latest rumor says it’s time for the company’s Game Pass-like subscription to change its brand name. VR leaker Nori posted a screenshot on X showing a handful of 3D movies coming to the Meta VR Plus service. Considering there is no such Meta VR Plus service currently, the obvious conclusion is that Meta Horizon+ is being renamed once again.
Meta Horizon+ currently includes over 100 games with its $7.99 per month subscription and is similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service in many ways. Unironically, Meta Horizon+ also includes the basic Xbox Game Pass tier with over 50 Xbox games playable via the Game Pass cloud. Meta offers a 3-month trial with every new Meta Quest purchase.
The new Meta VR+ service is purported to include 3D movies as well, although we don’t yet know if this will be included in the regular $7.99 per month rate, or if Meta will be introducing additional content tiers, as services like Netflix, Disney+, Xbox Game Pass, and others do. Based on the screenshot, these will be big-name movies and are likely positioned to enhance the value of the upcoming $1,300 Meta VR Glasses, although all the same content will work on existing Meta Quest 3 units.
Meta has been slowly distancing itself from the “Horizon” name ever since the beginning of this year, when its VR division got a big reset. In a February blog post, Samantha Ryan, the VP of Content at Meta’s Reality Labs, spoke about the changes to the company’s strategy, including the loss of most in-house VR gaming studios. Since then, several prominent VR developers from Meta have gone on to create independent studios, including the super-popular Supernatural exercise app.
Meta then decoupled the unpopular Horizon Metaverse from its headsets, moving it to mobile-only, and has been removing the “Horizon” name from just about everything since then. Meta Horizon+ looks to be the latest big change, as the company moves toward “Meta VR” branding, which is clearer and separates its VR division from mobile and smart glasses efforts.
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