Reality Labs chief Andrew Bosworth spoke for the first time this week about the cuts in the VR division and explained Meta's ...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, few concepts have captured the collective imagination as powerfully as the metaverse. This virtual universe, an extension of the Web3 framework, is ...
The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. But ...
Neil Stephenson introduced the metaverse as a concept in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, where he depicted it as a digital realm where users, represented by avatars, engage in a simulated reality.
Meta is just one company that has embraced the future of virtual reality. Facebook's announcement in October that it was further embracing the metaverse and rebranding itself as Meta set off a ...
The post-Lehman Brothers tech industry was a bright star in an otherwise gloomy economy. Buoyed by record-low interest rates (which, in effect, translated into a near-limitless supply of investor ...
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In my 3 decades of teaching in elementary and higher education there has not been a time when so much has evolved with tech as much as with AI, VR and Metaverse .
As we expected, Meta has begun laying off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division, which focused on virtual reality and metaverse products, Bloomberg reports. The company will refocus ...
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Virtual reality was once promised to be the future of not only video games, but social media. Is that future still possible? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Vishal Shah, VP of the Metaverse, to find out.