The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ...

Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on.

Do you remember what the internet of the past looked like? Static webpages that took an age to load, blurry JPG images and lots of garishly colored text and backgrounds, those were the days! Well, the ...

Meta is pulling back from its once-central virtual reality ambitions, as mounting losses and weakening demand force the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary cybersecurity and online privacy issues. May 22, 2024, 03:17am EDT Man wearing VR glasses virtual ...

Remember the metaverse? It was just a couple of years ago when it seemed as if every technology, media and entertainment company was scrambling to adapt to a future in which regular people would live ...

Meta’s grand metaverse experiment has reached a brutal inflection point. After Reality Labs racked up tens of billions of ...

Meta's metaverse strategy was flawed from the jump. Zuckerberg overhyped what consumers could expect from the move, ...

Meta Platforms has laid off roughly 10% of staff, about 1,500 people, from its Reality Labs division, the unit that houses ...

In 1992, Neal Stephenson penned the cult classic “Snow Crash” in which a pizza delivery man, Hiro Protagonist, exists between two worlds: the sunny streets of Los Angeles and the mind-bending ...

The global metaverse market is predicted to exceed $3 trillion by 2032. That’s a surprising valuation considering current scepticism, a stagnating user base, and claims that the metaverse is dead.

Meta is laying off over 1,000 employees, mainly in its Reality Labs division, as it shifts focus away from the metaverse ...