The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ...

The metaverse is no place for kids, according to a group of more than 70 advocates for children's rights and online privacy. Those concerned are asking Facebook's parent company, Meta, to abandon its ...

Meta is accelerating its pivot away from virtual reality, just over four years after changing its name.

Meta’s earnings beat expectations, but investors question whether its $135 billion AI push will pay off after metaverse losses and rising competition.

Tech visionaries sold us the bizarre idea of a ubiquitous metaverse. While we stay in the real world, glued to our phones, the metaverse may flourish in specific use cases.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When Meta recently laid off more than 11,000 employees in Nov 2022, then ...

In a recent interview with Meta’s current CTO Andrew Bosworth on his “Boz to the Future” podcast, Carmack said that although he’s still quite “bullish” on virtual reality itself, he thinks his ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It’s now two years since Facebook changed its name to Meta, ushering in a ...

Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may impressed some of us with his latest demo of far more lifelike metaverse avatars last week. But a peek behind the scenes paints a far more troubling ...

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg recast Facebook as Meta and declared the metaverse—a digital realm where people would work, socialize, and spend much of their lives—the company’s next great frontier. He ...

Explore why metaverse land boomed back in 2021 and then crashed in 2022, from hype and weak tech to low users and falling NFT ...

When Meta rebranded from Facebook two years ago, the word “metaverse” went mainstream. Even people outside the tech world wondered if we would soon start to socialize via virtual reality headsets. But ...