After years of hype and tens of billions of dollars in spending, Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse appears to be drawing to a close. Meta has scaled back its once-ambitious plans for a fully ...

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg recast Facebook as Meta and declared the metaverse—a digital realm where people would work, socialize, and spend much of their lives—the company’s next great frontier. He ...

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

Two months before it rebranded as Meta, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rolled out Horizon Workrooms as the metaverse for work, a virtual room where colleagues were meant to “collaborate” without leaving ...

RIP Horizon Worlds VR.

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.

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.

Mark Ritson is a former professor, award-winning columnist and brand consultant. He is the founder of the MiniMBA in Marketing. If you want to understand how brand architecture decisions get made - ...

There lies a space, essentially under constant development and change these days, that we are calling the metaverse. While not universal in nature, it is more like a vast network of potential ...

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