"For about 45 minutes each day, I slip on Meta's Quest headset and smash through shiny targets flying at me with virtual baseball bats synced to the beat of Taylor Swift, Madonna, Imagine Dragons, Eminem, Coldplay, and many others in my living room. Throughout the workout, which Supernatural calls "flow," my body drips with sweat, and my breath explodes in thunderous bursts."
"Supernatural, however, is fading away too. Earlier this month, Meta decided to lay off its entire staff - including its effusive, cheerleading coaches - along with 1,500 other employees in Meta's Reality Labs division. Some other VR gaming studios that Meta owned got the ax too. "We're still continuing to invest heavily in this space, but obviously, VR is growing less quickly than we hoped," Andrew Bosworth, Meta's CTO, told Sources, a tech newsletter, last week. "And so you want to make sure that your investment is right-sized.""
Supernatural is a Meta-owned VR fitness app that delivers immersive 45-minute workouts where users strike targets to music, producing intense physical and meditative experiences. Meta laid off Supernatural's entire staff among 1,500 Reality Labs cuts and shuttered several VR studios. The app will remain available but frozen with no new workouts, raising concerns about expiring music licenses and removed content. Access requires a $300 Quest headset and a $10 monthly subscription, which limited mainstream adoption but produced a passionate user base. Users are vocal about the decision and worried about the app's long-term viability and content degradation.
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