Whatever Happened To Rec Room?

What's your favorite memory of playing Rec Room? On June 1st, 2026, Rec Room shut down for good. 150 million players, a $3.5 billion valuation, gone on its tenth birthday. And Rec Room didn't get killed by a competitor or a publisher. It just never figured out how to make the money work. Two ex-Microsoft HoloLens believers who started over after they were reasigned away from consumer XR, a pandemic surge to 150 million players, a $3.5 billion valuation and $294 million raised, the brutal economics of user-generated content, a late bet on AI that cost more to run than it brought in, and the two rounds of layoffs that ended in a quiet shutdown notice. How does a company that big, with that much money and that many players, run out of a way to keep the lights on? Sideways Zero covers the VR games and studios that didn't make it. If you want more of these, subscribe. More from the channel: Whatever Happened To Superhot VR?    • Whatever Happened to Superhot VR?   Whatever Happened To Richie's Plank Experience?    • Whatever Happened To Richie’s Plank Experi...   #recroom #VR #MetaQuest #VirtualReality #VRGaming #Gaming #QuestStore #PSVR2 #recroomvideo