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 ...

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 ...

The metaverse exploded into the public consciousness in October 2021 as Facebook, Inc. changed its name to "Meta" and announced multibillion-dollar investments in metaverse technologies. Despite the ...

Virtual reality was once promised to be the future of not only video games, but social media. Is that future still possible? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Vishal Shah, VP of the Metaverse, to find out.

In October 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent his trillion-dollar social media company into a new direction. Facebook changed its name to Meta and Zuckerberg set his sights on a new horizon, the ...

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future — what Zuckerberg calls the " ...

Meta is accelerating its pivot away from virtual reality, just over four years after changing its name.

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.

So I was recently hanging out on a packed floor at a video game conference here in Los Angeles, when I entered this totally alternate reality. I'm surrounded by blackness but also huge company logos ...