Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post from Samantha Ryan, Meta's VP of Content, Reality Labs ...

Meta’s latest developer update delivers a quiet but major shift in strategy: the company is moving its metaverse ambitions away from virtual reality and focusing almost entirely on mobile experiences.

On October 28, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook “Meta, Inc.,” emphasizing his confidence and conviction about Facebook’s new future in the emerging metaverse. The metaverse, he explained, is an ...

As virtual environments evolve from speculative concepts into engaged digital economies, forward-thinking organizations are presented with a transformative opportunity: building dedicated marketplaces ...

Meta Platforms' (META) latest fourth-quarter earnings reignited investor enthusiasm for the social media stock as the results indicate the fiasco it created with unchecked spending on the metaverse is ...

It is easy to make predictions, and even easier to critique those that others made in the past. Case in point: Gartner predicted in 2022 that by 2026 (yes, that's this year), 25% of the population ...

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth offered the first bit of insight into the company’s recent Reality Labs shakeup, publicly acknowledging that Meta’s metaverse efforts suffered from a “lack of focus” that ...

Per Ola Kristensson has previously consulted for Meta. He receives funding from EPSRC and Google. Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and ...

Meta’s enormous bet on virtual reality ended last week, with the company reportedly laying off roughly 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — about 10% of the unit’s staff — and shutting ...

Meta has announced that it is discontinuing the metaverse for work on February 16th, 2026. This is a virtual space for workers to collaborate and connect. The company clarifies that any data ...

The Meta Quest 3 VR goggles and controllers are shown sitting on a wooden tabletop with blue walls and a white door in the background. (Engadget) The news isn’t too surprising. Reality Labs has lost ...

In a nutshell: Remember how much faith Mark Zuckerberg had in the metaverse? He even renamed his company after the concept of a shared VR social platform. That was before AI became the tech industry's ...