Meta will end its Quest for business program in 2030, end sales of commercial SKUs next month, and reduce existing subscriptions to $0 per month.
The program, which has been called “Meta Horizon Managed Services” since last year, was the latest in the company’s official offering for enterprise headset deployments, which includes commercial licenses and warranties, priority support, and mass-scale device management (MDM).
It started out as Oculus for Business, a $900 SKU of the original Oculus Rift that launched in 2017. The Oculus Go and Oculus Quest Enterprise SKUs were also available in the program until they were replaced by Meta Quest for Business in late 2023. It was then renamed to Meta Horizon Managed Services last year. Last year’s changes also made the program mandatory for corporate use.
Under this program, Quest headsets were sold at regular consumer prices plus a monthly subscription. There are two subscription tiers available: individual mode for $15 per month per headset, or shared mode for $24 per month per headset.
Personal mode uses one specific person’s meta account to provision the headset. Shared mode, on the other hand, only makes available the apps that an administrator remotely selects, and presents a very streamlined system interface with pre-configured settings.
Administrators can manage headsets using Meta’s admin center or existing enterprise user management platforms such as Microsoft Intune, VMware Workspace ONE, and Ivanti UEM.
Meta to close Horizon Workrooms next month
Meta is not a direct replacement for online meeting functionality and will be discontinuing its Horizon Workrooms VR conferencing software on February 16th.
Meta announced that starting February 20th, it will no longer sell commercial SKUs of its Quest headsets, will no longer accept new customers for Horizon managed services subscriptions, and will reduce subscription prices to $0 per month for existing customers.
After four years, on January 4, 2030, the program will end and support for the software will end.
“On behalf of Meta, we would like to thank you for your support and partnership,” the company said in a statement to the companies that trusted Meta.
The news comes in the same week that the company closed three of the VR game studios it acquired, liquidated another, stopped renewing its VR fitness service, canceled the Batman: Arkham Shadow sequel, and announced the closure of its workroom, all part of a broader move to shift spending away from VR and toward smart glasses.
