It’s unclear why the two companies have partnered up, but the scheme comes amid Apple’s push to dominate the “spatial computing” market. Magic Leap recently announced “a multi-faceted, strategic ...

Meta's biggest swing on trying to create a social network for VR is dying a quick death in June. Horizon Worlds, a platform that Meta said would be de-emphasized for VR in favor of mobile earlier this ...

Microsoft is reportedly looking to take on Apple’s Vision Pro headset with new hardware it would develop in partnership with Samsung. This would mean that five of the ten most valuable companies by ...

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.

At the heart of the metaverse derangement was the persistent inflation of its definition. McKinsey & Company proclaimed in June 2022 that the metaverse could generate “up to $5 trillion in impact by ...

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 ...

Before generative AI shook everything up, the metaverse was the next big thing. Now, it's "AI and the metaverse." For those with short attention spans, a social media company named Facebook changed ...

When Facebook changed its name to Meta, the entire tech sector looked towards what seemed to be the future of networks, communication, and commerce... until AI arrived. But the metaverse is still ...

Meta’s enormous bet on virtual reality ended last week, with the company reportedly laying off roughly 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — about 10% of the unit’s staff — and shutting ...