Meta spent billions of dollars on a VR playground with the goal of becoming the new way people use the internet. But the ...

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 ...

When Meta unveiled Horizon Worlds in 2021, it billed the platform as the future of the internet—a sprawling virtual playground where work, play, and social life would merge in VR. I saw it differently ...

Meta said its road to the metaverse ran through Seattle. Recent layoffs point to a dead end. Meta laid off hundreds of employees on Wednesday, about two months after a sweeping workforce reduction at ...

Meta's big bet on the metaverse hasn't worked out, and its shifted investment away. But the metaverse, as stupid and silly and legless as it was, was a beautiful idea. Instead, now we have an internet ...

Guests walk by a security bouncer, who was in the Metaverse, before a 2022 show in Las Vegas. (Roger Kisby for The Washington Post) Meta, formerly Facebook, is steering away from the “metaverse.” ...

Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon Worlds in VR for the "foreseeable future," though users shouldn't expect new ...

If you’ve been busy dancing on the grave of Meta’s failed metaverse, I’m going to have to ask you to pause for a moment. In fact, you may just want to sit down and rest your non-virtual legs, because ...

Meta announced a major update for its immersive virtual world, Horizon Worlds, on Thursday that will see it leave the metaverse behind. The tech giant said it’s shifting focus for Horizon Worlds to be ...

Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post from Samantha Ryan, Meta's VP of Content, Reality Labs ...

Meta’s latest developer update delivers a quiet but major shift in strategy: the company is moving its metaverse ambitions away from virtual reality and focusing almost entirely on mobile experiences.

The metaverse, once heralded as the future of digital interaction, has officially reached its end, as detailed by Kira. Despite billions of dollars in investments and years of development, the concept ...