Shares of Meta Platforms rose up to 4% Thursday following reports the company was scaling back its spending on the metaverse project, a virtual reality experience the company once touted as the future ...

Before generative AI shook everything up, the metaverse was the next big thing. Now, it's "AI and the metaverse." For those with short attention spans, a social media company named Facebook changed ...

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.

Adams County’s public library system, Anythink Libraries, is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Anythink World, the world’s first virtual library metaverse, an innovative digital branch that ...

Remember all the hype around the metaverse in education? Just two years ago it seemed like a 3D virtual realm for education was imminent: Facebook had changed its name to Meta, to signal its giant bet ...

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 ...

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 ...

To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec While the metaverse is often seen as a joke in 2025 because of low user counts and poor ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Matthew Ball estimated that 70% of the second edition of his book The ...

Mark Zuckerberg spent years insisting the metaverse was the next chapter of the internet, but the bill for that bet has finally come due. After roughly $70 billion in cumulative losses tied to virtual ...

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.