In the 1990s, the internet upended almost every aspect of our lives. Then came smartphones, which allowed us to take the internet with us. And now, if you believe the hype, a new revolution is here.

Facebook’s dream of the metaverse, a VR hellscape stuffed with annoying ads and screeching children, is as incoherent and confusing as ever after reading an 8,000 word essay by Nick Clegg, the ...

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, is as close to making the metaverse a household name as he did Facebook itself. For now, metaverse-related investments have been big money losers. (Photo by ANDREW ...

Facebook-turned-Meta’s multibillion dollar metaverse project has a serious user retention problem. Internal Meta documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal have revealed that most Horizon Worlds ...

3D avatars are coming to Messenger, Facebook and Instagram, along with Super Bowl-themed shirts. Meta's head of Avatars explains to CNET what's going on. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.

Meta's Metaverse could be a new era in digital interaction — or a privacy nightmare waiting to unfold. Since Facebook changed the name of its company to Meta in October 2021, the term “metaverse” has ...

In a few weeks’ time, Mark Zuckerberg will announce a new virtual reality headset from Meta Platforms Inc. Embarrassingly, we already know what it will look like. A video of the purported device has ...

In the few months since the announcement by Meta (erstwhile Facebook), the metaverse has witnessed its own accelerated maturation curve, with an initial upheaval of activity, heightened expectations, ...

Facebook warned that its Reality Labs metaverse business will lose even more money in 2023. This year, the company is on track to burn through more than $10 billion on this endeavor. Shares of the ...

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook and currently desperate to make the metaverse happen, has reported its Q4 and full year 2021 results, and if you thought the Oculus rebrand was bad then ...