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 ...

Meta Platforms is accelerating its pivot away from the metaverse, just over four years after the Facebook owner changed its ...

Meta, which is to say Facebook, laid off 1,500 or so employees from its Reality Labs division. A vast pool of talent wasted on Mark Zuckerberg's bet on virtual reality, it draws down a project that ...

Meta is pulling back from its once-central virtual reality ambitions, as mounting losses and weakening demand force the ...

Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on.

More than 1,000 Meta employees — the ones who brought you the metaverse — are now looking for work.

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 ...

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 ...

Two months before it rebranded as Meta, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rolled out Horizon Workrooms as the metaverse for work, a virtual room where colleagues were meant to “colla ...

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 ...

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 ...