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 ...

RIP the metaverse.

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 ...

A big shakeup at Reality Labs.

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 ...

The job cuts come as the social media giant doubles down on AI and grapples with a big bet on the metaverse that didn’t pan ...

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 ...

Meta's metaverse strategy was flawed from the jump. Zuckerberg overhyped what consumers could expect from the move, ...

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 ...

Leading off the pack is a company that single-handedly managed to shift the industry’s attention towards today’s hottest buzzword and change its own brand name in the process. Meta has spent years ...