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 ...

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 ...

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

SAND SPRINGS, Okla. — Months of conversations and meetings about Project Spring, a proposed data center near Sand Springs, ended Tuesday night with the city council voting to pass the rezoning request ...

ALBERTVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Winter haters rejoice! Sand Mountain Sam, Alabama’s beloved opossum, did not see his shadow at a ceremony in Albertville on Monday, meaning an early spring could be on tap.

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 ...

Meta is laying off more than 1,000 employees as it scales back its metaverse ambitions and redirects investment toward AI-powered wearables. The cuts are concentrated in the Reality Labs division and ...

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 first time Sumaira Abdulali tangoed with the sand mafia, it was 2004. She was 43 years old and enjoying time with her husband and two kids at the family’s holiday home on the western coast 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 ...