I thought for a moment that #SupernaturalVR was going to be spared from Meta's purge, but no such luck.

I, like many players I'm sure, am going to be there until they shut the lights off, kick us out, and weld the doors closed behind us.

Absolute psycho behaviour. SN is by all accounts wildly popular and seems like it was self-sustaining via its subscriptions, which not a lot of VR services seem to be. And it was polished, professional, and premium in a way most VR is not, and it had a real, human element with the coaches and online community (of people, not legless avatars) that I haven't really seen elsewhere.

This is absolutely a failure of market consolidation and regulation. Lina Khan called this absolutely correctly as being bad for the marketplace and bad for competition.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/meta-is-shutting-down-popular-supernatural-vr-fitness-app

#VR #bigtech #meta #VR #VRgaming

Meta Cuts Jobs at Reality Labs/Oculus Studios Amid Financial Strain

#Meta #RealityLabs #Layoffs #TechLayoffs #VR #VirtualReality #AR #AugmentedReality #Oculus #MetaQuest #SupernaturalVR #TechNews #BigTech

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/24/meta-cuts-jobs-at-reality-labs-oculus-studios-amid-financial-strain-xcxwbn/

Today was supposed to be my rest day 😅 Oh well, I can rest tomorrow.

#getsupernatural #supernaturalvr #vrfitness

What do you do with outdated #VRHeadsets? Can they be recycled?

#SupernaturalVR stops supporting my #Oculus1 in January. I'm the only one in my family who ever uses VR and I use it for #exercise.

#introduction

Brad (he/him), #Oregon by way of #EastLongmeadow and #Longmeadow #Massachusetts.

Retired tech pubs manager, technical writer, process technologist, #CathodeRayTube technician, oscilloscope assembler, #helicopter parts clerk, #library page.

#CairnTerrier nut specifically and #terrier fan broadly.

Interests include #earthdog, #barnhunt, #nosework, #FastCAT, #Ebikes, #SupernaturalVR, #StraightRazor. Nostalgia tags #ADP, #ColumbiaHelicopters, #Tektronix.

#SOTD feed @[email protected]

The FTC has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Meta in an attempt to stop the company from buying Supernatural, saying the purchase would lessen competition in the VR fitness app market.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/07/ftc-says-metas-supernatural-purchase-could-ruin-the-vr-fitness-market/
#Meta #FTC #VR #SuperNaturalVR #Fitness