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

Meta's metaverse strategy was flawed from the jump. Zuckerberg overhyped what consumers could expect from the move, ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, few concepts have captured the collective imagination as powerfully as the metaverse. This virtual universe, an extension of the Web3 framework, is ...

The term "metaverse" has been around for decades but has recently gained significantly more attention as tech companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Roblox have invested in shared virtual spaces where ...

Although issues such as the cost of hardware, the bulkiness of VR headsets and a lack of interoperability between ...

Unfortunately, the metaverse they’ve built has, so far, lived up to those expectations about as well as a Craigslist apartment rented based on photos alone. Zuckerberg’s Horizon Worlds, clunky and ...

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. But ...

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 ...

Meta’s Connect keynote felt different this year, and not just because it marked the return of an in-person event. It’s been nearly two years since Mark Zuckerberg used Connect to announce that ...

When Disney shut down its metaverse division on March 28, 2023, the end of the 50-person division was interpreted as doom for the metaverse, the over-hyped universe of virtual worlds that are all ...

Neal Stephenson’s science fiction novel Snow Crash predicted the Metaverse in 1992. This cult book has the amusingly-named Hiro Protagonist running around in an artificial cyber world, trying to stop ...

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