2026 gets another VR casualty as Rec Room announces shutdown, but Snap might have big AR plans for it.

Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon ...

Meta knows it can’t fully abandon VR, even if the hype surrounding the metaverse and its Horizon Worlds virtual environment has withered to a shallow husk of its initial promise. Just two days after ...

Though still refocusing on its mobile app, Meta will now continue to support Horizon Worlds' existing VR games as well.

The much-hyped metaverse, AR, and blockchain technologies have all gone boom and bust over the last few years—in some cases, more than once. But from that rubble of v1 ideas, we’re witnessing the ...

Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson says the metaverse's foundations are maturing. New mixed reality headsets from Meta and Apple could help his case. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The final quarter of last year saw funding for Web3 startups drop 74% from the same quarter of 2021. This steep decline in Web3 funding comes amid massive investments from the Big Tech giants in ...

Meta's AI pivot continues to inflict human casualties. The post With the Metaverse Canceled and Zuckerberg Training AI to Run ...

The concept of the metaverse is often thought of as a virtual reality that immerses headset wearers in fantastic, fabricated worlds. But the definition is evolving. Separate from virtual reality, ...