The news comes just months after the company's first ever round of mass layoffs and a rocky 2022 in which Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on the metaverse. Reading time 3 minutes Meta has released its ...

It’s either the next evolution of the internet or the latest corporate buzzword to get investors excited over some nebulous innovation that may not even come to pass over the next decade. Subscribe to ...

To hear tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella talk about it, the metaverse is the future of the internet. Or it's a video game. Or maybe it's a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom?

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg recast Facebook as Meta and declared the metaverse—a digital realm where people would work, socialize, and spend much of their lives—the company’s next great frontier. He ...

In a recent interview with Meta’s current CTO Andrew Bosworth on his “Boz to the Future” podcast, Carmack said that although he’s still quite “bullish” on virtual reality itself, he thinks his ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When Meta recently laid off more than 11,000 employees in Nov 2022, then ...

Remember all the hype around the metaverse in education? Just two years ago it seemed like a 3D virtual realm for education was imminent: Facebook had changed its name to Meta, to signal its giant bet ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It’s now two years since Facebook changed its name to Meta, ushering in a ...

Meta (META) hasn’t given up on the metaverse, despite a very public pivot to artificial intelligence. “Our investments in AI continue. We remain fully committed to the Metaverse vision as well. We've ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently lost a flabbergasting $14 billion — yes, that’s a”billion” with a “b” — dollars last year on his metaverse moonshot. Comparatively, the Reality Labs division only ...

To begin, there’s no universally accepted definition for the term. Some think of it as an enhanced successor to the current version of the internet—a new frontier for online interaction blending the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. It is abundantly clear at this point that the last few ...