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Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon Worlds in VR for the "foreseeable future," though users shouldn't expect new ...

When Meta unveiled Horizon Worlds in 2021, it billed the platform as the future of the internet—a sprawling virtual playground where work, play, and social life would merge in VR. I saw it differently ...

Meta is scaling back its metaverse focus, cutting studios and head count at Reality Labs to prioritize artificial ...

Our future was pronounced dead last week. I mean that glorious future of "The Metaverse," promised to us by Silicon Valley's tech and financial geniuses. Just a decade ago, they were promising us that ...

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 ...

Meow Wolf has tapped Matthew Henick as its new chief executive, the immersive art collective announced Tuesday, handing the ...

In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement that would reshape his entire company. Facebook was rebranding to Meta, ...

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.

This article originally appeared on Business Insider. The Metaverse, the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world, has died ...

The term "metaverse" has been around for decades but has recently gained significantly more attention as tech companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Roblox have invested in shared virtual spaces where ...

The metaverse is arguably the next generation of the internet, forever altering how we experience life online. Don’t believe me? Think the metaverse is somewhat overrated? Or perhaps you’re bored of ...