The start of 2026 delivered the final nail in the coffin for the metaverse, the digital world once hailed by Mark Zuckerberg as the future of human interaction. After putting all his eggs in this one ...

Mark Zuckerberg said the metaverse would be the future of his company - and the entire internet. Now, after tens of billions of dollars spent, it's quietly being shelved in favour of AI, writes Adam ...

The company teased what appears to be a new pair of smart glasses, and said its event will focus on “the latest in VR, ...

Meta has officially set a date for the end of its virtual reality metaverse experiment. Horizon Worlds, the social VR platform that sat at the center of Mark Zuckerberg's 2021 bet on the metaverse, ...

When Facebook changed its name to Meta a few years ago, the idea was that the VR metaverse would become a huge pillar for the company. I think we can safely say that's not going to happen. On its ...

Meta Platforms will shut down its Horizon Worlds metaverse for virtual reality users in June, pivoting to a mobile-only experience as it retreats from the aggressive metaverse push it championed just ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, Meta shared an announcement that it would be moving away from supporting virtual reality with Horizon Worlds — its massively expensive metaverse project. Horizon Worlds, which ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that the future of Facebook would be the metaverse. Based in virtual reality, it would be an immersive digital world where people could work, ...

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It's easy to dunk on Mark Zuckerberg and Meta for burning $80 billion on the metaverse and then moving on. But that's not exactly true. What is true is that Zuckerberg used to spend a lot of time ...