Meta Platforms started 2026 by laying off around 1,500 employees in its Reality Labs division, a move that highlights the fading glow of its metaverse dreams amid billions in losses and a clear shift ...

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Metaverse has undoubtedly been one of the most talked-about concepts of the year. At the start of 2022, the focus was on Facebook’s surprise re-branding of itself to Meta Platforms. Now, as we head ...

A Digital Delusion? Remember the heady days of late 2021 and early 2022? It felt like everyone, from major brands to ...

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. But ...

The future of the metaverse looks shakier than anyone can imagine. Tech companies that have bought into the concept fully—like Facebook-turned-Meta and Disney—are facing the realities of building out ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As this is the final piece of our “Building the Metaverse” series, I find ...

The Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg’s vision that took shape in 2021, does not seem to be delivering as desired, as Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is planning to make meaningful cuts in resources ...

Virtual and mixed reality still have value for internal use and customer experience, even if other industries are moving on, ...

Meta has new artificial intelligence tools and celebrity-endorsed digital assistants that the company hopes will help jump-start the metaverse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the AI software in ...