Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The metaverse has captured the attention of tech developers, marketers, and users alike. Envisioned as the digital world of the ...

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 ...

Meta announced a major update for its immersive virtual world, Horizon Worlds, on Thursday that will see it leave the metaverse behind. The tech giant said it’s shifting focus for Horizon Worlds to be ...

Virtual reality was once promised to be the future of not only video games, but social media. Is that future still possible? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Vishal Shah, VP of the Metaverse, to find out.

The Metaverse is an interconnected suite of persistent, immersive virtual spaces that fuse physical and digital realities through advanced computational frameworks. Underpinned by technologies such as ...

The metaverse is a concept that has been floating around ever since being formally introduced by Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash. While some observers may have written it off as a pipe dream, ...

Shares of Meta Platforms rose up to 4% Thursday following reports the company was scaling back its spending on the metaverse project, a virtual reality experience the company once touted as the future ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and the world, providing us with an immersive world where we could seamlessly combine digital and ...

Meta is considering cutting up to 30% of its metaverse division’s budget in 2026, with layoffs expected to follow, Bloomberg reported. The company’s virtual reality unit, including Quest headsets and ...

The Welsh Government has invested more than £1.2million in a virtual reality educational platform designed to lecture students about "white privilege". Described as the "world's first anti-racist ...

Meta’s enormous bet on virtual reality ended last week, with the company reportedly laying off roughly 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — about 10% of the unit’s staff — and shutting ...