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 ...

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Even by Facebook’s standards, 2021 was a rough year. A series of damning reports based on leaks from a whistleblower raised uncomfortable questions about Facebook’s impact on society; the company ...

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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In 2012, she had started an Instagram account with the handle @metaverse, a name she used in her creative work. On the account, she documented her life in Brisbane, where she studied fine art, and her ...