Our future was pronounced dead last week. I mean that glorious future of "The Metaverse," promised to us by Silicon Valley's ...

2026 gets another VR casualty as Rec Room announces shutdown, but Snap might have big AR plans for it.

Meta knows it can’t fully abandon VR, even if the hype surrounding the metaverse and its Horizon Worlds virtual environment has withered to a shallow husk of its initial promise. Just two days after ...

Metaverse creator Neal Stephenson says VR headsets lack a real business case and remain socially uncomfortable for users.

Though still refocusing on its mobile app, Meta will now continue to support Horizon Worlds' existing VR games as well.

You could buy and sell plots of land and advertising. Soon, brands began appearing in Decentraland, like Atari, Nestle, and Samsung. There was a Metaverse Fashion Week. Paris Hilton hosted a DJ set.

Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality ...

Now, Stephenson says he no longer believes face-worn computing is the future. He thinks Meta’s glasses are creepy: “People ...

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, has argued he and ...

After years of hype and tens of billions of dollars in spending, Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse appears to be drawing to a close. Meta has scaled back its once-ambitious plans for a fully ...