While the metaverse is often seen as a joke in 2025 because of low user counts and poor financial performance, the industry may be thriving in ways the general public doesn't realize. The metaverse ...

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

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.

Metaverse has undoubtedly been one of the most talked-about concepts of the year. At the start of 2022, the focus was on Facebook’s surprise re-branding of itself to Meta Platforms. Now, as we head ...

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Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

While the metaverse is often seen as a joke in 2025 because of low user counts and poor financial performance (take Meta's Reality Labs division and its continued losses, estimated by Statista at $70 ...

In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which “personal [AI] superintelligence for everyone” forms “the beginning of a new era for ...

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company. A Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse ...

In the dystopian sci-fi novel and film “Ready Player One,” future humans spend much of their lives in the OASIS, a virtual reality wonderland in which “the limits of reality are your own imagination.” ...