A major VR headset battle is heating up between rivals Meta, Apple and Sony, as the Japanese manufacturer has announced plans for a workplace-oriented model. Sony/dpa The metaverse will become the ...

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

We didn’t have to wait long to get more details about Sony's new mixed reality headset. Just after Sony teased the “spatial content creation” device onstage at CES 2024, we got a fresh look, and a few ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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.