Our future was pronounced dead last week. I mean that glorious future of "The Metaverse," promised to us by Silicon Valley's ...

Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon ...

Now, Stephenson says he no longer believes face-worn computing is the future. He thinks Meta’s glasses are creepy: “People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do.” He ...

2026 gets another VR casualty as Rec Room announces shutdown, but Snap might have big AR plans for it.

Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) is cutting about 700 roles, largely in its Reality Labs hardware organization. The company is ...

Soon after announcing that Horizon Worlds would be discontinued, Meta has taken a sharp U-turn. Here's what that means for ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Reality Labs unit has lost more than $80 billion. But only some of that money was spent on metaverse projects. Much of it went to hardware projects like the Orion prototype ...

The layoffs at Fortnite's studio are directly due to decisions made by CEO Tim Sweeney, who doesn't quite seem to understand ...

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.

Neil Stephenson introduced the metaverse as a concept in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, where he depicted it as a digital realm where users, represented by avatars, engage in a simulated reality.