Meta Targeted Yoga App Maker for Talking to Apple, Suit Says (1)

Andre Elijah created a virtual reality yoga app, with avatars of top instructors teaching various poses as well as pilates and mindfulness.

But users may never see it. Meta Platforms Inc. killed it just before launch time when Meta learned Elijah had talked with Apple Inc. and ByteDance’s Pico about launching the app on their competing VR platforms, he alleges in a lawsuit.

Meta canceled his AEI Fitness app days before its unveiling at Meta Connect, the world’s biggest VR conference, Elijah says. He says the conference would have propelled it to the top of the VR fitness app market, ...