The ha-ha videos about the failure of the metaverse are everywhere. Seriously, I watched one last night that was just a cringe-by-cringe replay of the original Mark Zuckerberg launch video for the ...

Five years ago, tech angel investor Chris Adamo and a few friends jumped on a burgeoning trend in the digital asset world: they used a virtual real estate broker to buy 23 parcels of property in a ...

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Meta is laying off several hundred employees across key divisions — including Facebook and its Reality Labs unit — as it overhauls the company for the artificial intelligence era. The layoffs also ...

Meta said its road to the metaverse ran through Seattle. Recent layoffs point to a dead end. Meta laid off hundreds of employees on Wednesday, about two months after a sweeping workforce reduction at ...

The metaverse is evolving rapidly in 2026, merging virtual and physical realities through advanced AI, spatial computing, and immersive VR experiences. This next phase moves beyond hype, focusing on ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Nearly five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg told us the future was the metaverse — an idea that seemed to ...

In 2021, Facebook renamed itself "Meta" because it was the first part of the word "metaverse." This is fitting because "leg" is the first part of the word legacy, and the absence of legs will end up ...

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Meta's Horizon Worlds will be available on Quest headsets for a while after all, after originally aiming for a June 15 hard shutdown. But it won't support anything new. I started with CNET reviewing ...

Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon Worlds in VR for the "foreseeable future," though users shouldn't expect new ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that the future of Facebook would be the metaverse. Based in virtual reality, it would be an immersive digital world where people could work, ...