RIP Horizon Worlds VR.

Instead of hanging out with no legs in Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse, we're stuck in AI slop purgatory.

The metaverse was once presented as the inevitable future of the internet, with billions invested by major tech companies ...

In 2021, Zuckerberg said Facebook was becoming a metaverse company. He's stopped saying that — but he's still putting money ...

Disney could still integrate generative AI into its streaming service, and we might end up seeing some version of the company ...

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, has argued he and ...

Now, Stephenson says he no longer believes face-worn computing is the future. He thinks Meta’s glasses are creepy: “People ...

Whoever first pitched the idea of calling a broad portfolio of technologies “the industrial metaverse” may regret it. The product managers at many vendors who jumped on the idea almost certainly do.

You could buy and sell plots of land and advertising. Soon, brands began appearing in Decentraland, like Atari, Nestle, and Samsung. There was a Metaverse Fashion Week. Paris Hilton hosted a DJ set.

Zuckerberg’s $110B metaverse dream crashed because its developers didn’t seem to know exactly what problem they were solving.