2026 gets another VR casualty as Rec Room announces shutdown, but Snap might have big AR plans for it.

Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.

Snap has acquired select assets from Rec Room Inc., with some employees joining the Spectacles hardware subsidiary, as the Seattle-based social gaming company shuts down its platform on June 1.

In the Rec Room community Discord server, thousands of posts illustrated the impact that the loss of the gaming app will have on players.

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The Roblox-like VR title Rec Room is shutting down after operating for a decade. The free-to-play social game is closing its ...

Rec Room, a social gaming giant with over 150 million users, will close on June 1 due to financial struggles despite a ...

Once valued at $3.5 billion, Rec Room is a popular, cross-platform social video game that allows players to hang out, create, ...

Rec Room, a Roblox-like social gaming platform that lets users create games and experiences for others to play, is shutting down on June 1st. Despite reaching more than 150 millio ...