Although Meta is making a sizable reduction to the headcount in its Reality Labs division, the company hasn't given up on the ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company’s Reality Labs division, part of a plan to redirect resources from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI ...

Cuts expected to hit around 10% of Reality Labs' 15,000-strong workforce.

You’ve been reading about the metaverse, and you aren’t sure what to do about it yet. Is it too early? Is it already too late? What level of investment is needed? Where will you find expertise?

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth offered the first bit of insight into the company’s recent Reality Labs shakeup, publicly acknowledging that Meta’s metaverse efforts suffered from a “lack of focus” that ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse dreams seem to have been replaced by a new vision: an AI-generated social feed. In an ...

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.

"AfterForms", a hybrid metaverse exhibition exploring climate grief, memory, and digital responsibility, has launched as the ...

In 2017, Brendan Greene, or “PlayerUnknown,” kickstarted the battle royale craze with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Now, Greene has an even bigger goal, a metaverse, but not in the usual way. In an ...

Our weekly roundup of news from Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Can the metaverse solve Japan’s “hikikomori” problem? Research and consulting firm Yuri Group estimates that ...