The office real estate investment trust recorded what it claimed was the first formally recorded transfer of AR property rights.

He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Epic Games and Google are burying the hatchet, but documents ...

Despite a burst of popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the AR/VR industry now seems adrift as companies try to decide ...

Meta announced a major update for its immersive virtual world, Horizon Worlds, on Thursday that will see it leave the metaverse behind. The tech giant said it’s shifting focus for Horizon Worlds to be ...

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’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 ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN - MARCH 06: Women use the Meta Quest 3 at Mobile Congress 2025 on March 06, 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Eric Alonso/Getty Images) (Eric Alonso via Getty Images) Several of ...

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 ...

Meta is laying off of 1,500 workers in its Reality Labs division as it moves its focus from the metaverse to smart glasses with AI. Even though it lost billions on VR, the success of its Ray-Ban ...

At the heart of the metaverse derangement was the persistent inflation of its definition. McKinsey & Company proclaimed in June 2022 that the metaverse could generate “up to $5 trillion in impact by ...