{"id":16786,"date":"2026-07-25T16:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16786"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:18:18","slug":"metas-shift-from-vr-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16786","title":{"rendered":"Meta&#8217;s shift from VR\/AR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andrewwilliams\/2026\/01\/05\/meta-quest-series-future-looks-bleaker-as-shipments-decline\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andrewwilliams\/2026\/01\/05\/meta-quest-series-future-looks-bleaker-as-shipments-decline\/\">headset shipments in 2025 were significantly down on 2024\u2019s numbers<\/a>. Meta shipped 1.7 million Quest headsets in the first three quarters of 2025 according to market research firm IDC, representing a 16% decline versus the same period in 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This may have a lot to do with their cleaning house and shift away from AR\/VR into AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta reported that headset shipments in 2025 were significantly down on 2024\u2019s numbers. Meta shipped 1.7 million Quest headsets in the first three quarters of 2025 according to market research firm IDC, representing a 16% decline versus the same period in 2024 This may have a lot to do with their cleaning house and shift away from AR\/VR into AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4mK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16787,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786\/revisions\/16787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}