Tech visionaries sold us the bizarre idea of a ubiquitous metaverse. While we stay in the real world, glued to our phones, ...

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.

Do you remember what the internet of the past looked like? Static webpages that took an age to load, blurry JPG images and lots of garishly colored text and backgrounds, those were the days! Well, the ...

Meta is pulling back from its once-central virtual reality ambitions, as mounting losses and weakening demand force the ...

In 1992, Neal Stephenson penned the cult classic “Snow Crash” in which a pizza delivery man, Hiro Protagonist, exists between two worlds: the sunny streets of Los Angeles and the mind-bending ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary cybersecurity and online privacy issues. May 22, 2024, 03:17am EDT Man wearing VR glasses virtual ...

Remember the metaverse? It was just a couple of years ago when it seemed as if every technology, media and entertainment company was scrambling to adapt to a future in which regular people would live ...

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.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The author of ‘The Metaverse’ discusses the new update to his 2022 book and how the Apple Vision Pro and AI fit ...

Meta’s grand metaverse experiment has reached a brutal inflection point. After Reality Labs racked up tens of billions of ...

Meta Platforms has initiated sweeping workforce reductions across its Reality Labs division, cutting more than 1,000 ...