The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ...

RIP the metaverse.

Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on.

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 ...

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A big shakeup at Reality Labs.

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.

Meta is pulling back from its once-central virtual reality ambitions, as mounting losses and weakening demand force the ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for ...

[Editors’ Note: This story was originally published on Oct. 26. On Oct. 28, Zuckerberg followed up on the announcement covered in this article with the news that the larger Facebook organization would ...

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