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

Do you remember what the internet of the past looked like? Static webpages that took an age to load, blurry JPG images and lots of garishly colored text and backgrounds, those were the days! Well, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary cybersecurity and online privacy issues. May 22, 2024, 03:17am EDT Man wearing VR glasses virtual ...

What failed as consumer hype is reemerging as infrastructure for AI agents, autonomous transactions, and machine-to-machine ...

In 1992, Neal Stephenson penned the cult classic “Snow Crash” in which a pizza delivery man, Hiro Protagonist, exists between two worlds: the sunny streets of Los Angeles and the mind-bending ...

Remember the metaverse? It was just a couple of years ago when it seemed as if every technology, media and entertainment company was scrambling to adapt to a future in which regular people would live ...

The race to build the metaverse – a vast digital realm where virtual and physical worlds merge – is already becoming a global power struggle. According to new research from the University of Amsterdam ...

Today, the internet is a disparate collection of sites, apps and platforms. Because they are separate from one another, they lack interoperability and data portability. So, despite huge advances made ...

(NEXSTAR) – Like it or not, it’s time to embrace the “metaverse.” On Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed his company — Facebook Inc. — would be rebranding itself as Meta, to better ...

The global metaverse market is predicted to exceed $3 trillion by 2032. That’s a surprising valuation considering current scepticism, a stagnating user base, and claims that the metaverse is dead.

Meta Platforms (META) laid off 1,500 workers from its reality segment last week, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.