Meta Platforms is accelerating its pivot away from the metaverse, just over four years after the Facebook owner changed its ...

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 ...

Meta, which is to say Facebook, laid off 1,500 or so employees from its Reality Labs division. A vast pool of talent wasted on Mark Zuckerberg's bet on virtual reality, it draws down a project that ...

The metaverse is no place for kids, according to a group of more than 70 advocates for children's rights and online privacy. Those concerned are asking Facebook's parent company, Meta, to abandon its ...

More than 1,000 Meta employees — the ones who brought you the metaverse — are now looking for work.

In a recent interview with Meta’s current CTO Andrew Bosworth on his “Boz to the Future” podcast, Carmack said that although he’s still quite “bullish” on virtual reality itself, he thinks his ...

Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on.

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have subtly relegated the Metaverse to the strategic back seat. The company has exhibited a welcome emphasis on cost discipline and a bloated headcount. Several valuation ...

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was “shocked” when she heard the company planned to hire 10,000 engineers in Europe to work on the “metaverse,” a version of the internet based on virtual and ...

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 ...

Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may impressed some of us with his latest demo of far more lifelike metaverse avatars last week. But a peek behind the scenes paints a far more troubling ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It’s now two years since Facebook changed its name to Meta, ushering in a ...