Life After Horizon Workrooms: A Transition Guide for Enterprise Teams and Professional XR Users
Meta has officially announced that Horizon Workrooms will be discontinued on February 16, 2026. The announcement was shared via Meta's official Workrooms transition guidance, outlining how customers should prepare and where they can explore next-generation enterprise collaboration solutions.
You can read Meta's original announcement here.
For organizations using Horizon Workrooms today, this update marks an important transition - not because immersive work is disappearing, but because Meta is continuing to refine its long-term strategy around XR platforms, infrastructure, and hardware, while relying on an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) to deliver specialized enterprise software.
Key Dates and Factors Enterprise Teams Should Be Aware Of
February 16, 2026: Horizon Workrooms will no longer be operational. User-generated content such as whiteboards, room layouts, and shared files will no longer be accessible after this date.
Important: Meta has communicated that there is no automatic migration or backup for Workrooms content. Teams should plan to export relevant materials ahead of the February 16 deadline.
What Meta Recommends Instead
In its official transition guidance, Meta highlights Arthur as one of the enterprise VR collaboration solutions positioned to carry immersive workplace collaboration forward. Arthur is designed specifically for professional use cases and is built to run on Meta's XR hardware and platform infrastructure.
As an ISV partner, Arthur focuses on immersive collaboration for business, complementing Meta's continued investment in XR hardware, platforms, and core infrastructure.
How Arthur Fits Into the Professional XR Ecosystem
Arthur has been building immersive collaboration software for enterprise teams for years, with a focus on uniting XR and AI at the core of day-to-day work. The platform emphasizes:
Enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance
Drawing on years of experience working with global enterprises, Arthur ensures data is protected through enterprise-grade safeguards such as end-to-end encryption, private and flexible hosting options, SOC 2 Type II certification and GDPR compliance.
Structured collaboration formats such as workshops, trainings, and onboardings
Arthur supports a wide range of collaboration formats - from lightweight meetings that require minimal tooling to highly structured workshops, trainings, and onboarding sessions that benefit from facilitation tools, visual frameworks, and guided workflows.
Scalable environments that support everything from small meetings to large events
Arthur's environments are designed to scale seamlessly, whether supporting focused one-on-one or single-participant onboarding experiences, small team meetings, or large immersive sessions with dozens of participants in the same virtual space.
Integrated AI capabilities embedded directly into workflows
Within these AI capabilities, AI co-workers actively participate in immersive sessions - supporting facilitation, executing tasks, capturing knowledge, and helping teams move from discussion to action in real time
Arthur is designed to support organizations whose immersive collaboration needs are evolving alongside the XR ecosystem.
Preparing for the Transition from Workrooms
For teams currently using Horizon Workrooms, a proactive transition plan can help ensure continuity:
- Export your Workrooms content via the web interface before February 16, 2026.
- Review collaboration requirements for your teams, such as meeting size, room setup, facilitation needs, and security expectations.
- Don't wait until until the last minute - engage early with Arthur to understand onboarding and setup timelines – we have created a designated support track to make your transition as seamless as possible: Book meeting here
Looking Ahead
For enterprises, this creates an opportunity to reassess how immersive collaboration fits into their workflows - and to adopt solutions that are purpose-built for business, while continuing to leverage Meta's XR hardware and infrastructure.