Soon after announcing that Horizon Worlds would be discontinued, Meta has taken a sharp U-turn. Here's what that means for ...

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

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

The start of 2026 delivered the final nail in the coffin for the metaverse, the digital world once hailed by Mark Zuckerberg as the future of human interaction. After putting all his eggs in this one ...

While the metaverse is often seen as a joke in 2025 because of low user counts and poor financial performance (take Meta's Reality Labs division and its continued losses, estimated by Statista at $70 ...

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

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

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.

It’s either the next evolution of the internet or the latest corporate buzzword to get investors excited over some nebulous innovation that may not even come to pass over the next decade. Either way, ...