Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning
Boone Ashworth
created: Jan. 15, 2026, 10:44 p.m. | updated: Jan. 20, 2026, 10:57 a.m.
Me and two people I just met are punching digital blocks that fly at our heads in the VR workout platform Supernatural.
But Meta’s widespread layoffs this week to its Reality Labs division included cuts at Supernatural, though the number of people at Supernatural who have been affected is still unclear.
“It can't all just be AI, AI, AI.”The reported reason for Meta’s rejiggering of its finances is to shovel funds into the company’s forays into artificial intelligence like its Meta AI platform and its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses.
Even before that, communities of Supernatural users (they call themselves athletes) had formed around the service.
Since the layoffs, Supernatural users have begun a sort of grieving process for the virtual space they see as being on a death march.
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