Opinion

What was the metaverse?

Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on. Late last year, Meta confirmed it would effectively be abandoning the metaverse, a ...
Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and the world, providing us ...
Tech visionaries sold us the bizarre idea of a ubiquitous metaverse. While we stay in the real world, glued to our phones, ...
Meta Platforms (META) laid off 1,500 workers from its reality segment last week, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
After years of heavy spending and limited traction, Mark Zuckerberg’s bet on the metaverse appears to be nearing its end.
The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ...
University of Washington professor Pedro Domingos criticized Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's timing for key technologies. Domingos ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of the metaverse has rarely looked farther away. The Facebook founder is finalizing significant budget cuts to Meta’s years-long project to create virtual worlds that users can ...
Meta will lay off hundreds in California as it moves resources from the metaverse to AI, affecting major offices in ...
Meta’s grand metaverse experiment has reached a brutal inflection point. After Reality Labs racked up tens of billions of ...
Meta employees are facing potential workforce reductions, particularly within the Reality Labs team, which may see a 10% cut, primarily affecting the metaverse sector. This move aligns with Meta's ...
Meta is pulling back from its once-central virtual reality ambitions, as mounting losses and weakening demand force the ...