Meta Platforms started 2026 by laying off around 1,500 employees in its Reality Labs division, a move that highlights the fading glow of its metaverse dreams amid billions in losses and a clear shift ...

The Metaverse, the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world, has died after being abandoned by the business world. It was ...

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A disastrous Q3 earnings report has left many wondering whether Meta's big gamble on the metaverse will ever actually pay off. Reading time 11 minutes Well, Meta sure is in a bit of a mess. The ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently lost a flabbergasting $14 billion — yes, that’s a”billion” with a “b” — dollars last year on his metaverse moonshot. Comparatively, the Reality Labs division only ...

To the outsider, it may look like a souped-up version of Virtual Reality (VR) - but some people think the metaverse could be the future of the internet. In fact, the belief is that it could be to VR ...

With the demise of "Rec Room" and Meta's cutback in "Horizon Worlds," two prominent chapters of VR history are ending. What ...

The future of the metaverse looks shakier than anyone can imagine. Tech companies that have bought into the concept fully—like Facebook-turned-Meta and Disney—are facing the realities of building out ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As this is the final piece of our “Building the Metaverse” series, I find ...

Although the metaverse has great potential to significantly expand the digital economy, it continues to raise legal issues pertaining to intellectual property (IP) rights, including trademark, patent, ...