After changing its name and going all-in on virtual reality, Meta is scaling back its metaverse operations. But that could be ...

There are various schools of thought on the metaverse. Maximalists argue that it can be everything—that we can effectively work, play, exercise, shop and network in VR, coming up for air once in a ...

Meta may have scrapped its Horizons Worlds platform, but new spaces are emerging where companies can gather unprecedented insights on customer behavior and intention.

There lies a space, essentially under constant development and change these days, that we are calling the metaverse. While not universal in nature, it is more like a vast network of potential ...

Meta’s 2026 layoffs hit Reality Labs, closing VR studios and flooding LinkedIn with #OpenToWork posts amid strategic shifts.

Two months before it rebranded as Meta, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rolled out Horizon Workrooms as the metaverse for work, a virtual room where colleagues were meant to “collaborate” without… Two ...

Meta is finally putting hard numbers behind its strategic pivot, cutting jobs in the very division that once embodied its metaverse ambitions while steering money and talent into artificial ...

The workplace of the 2020s already looks vastly different from what we could have imagined just a couple of years ago. Now, the metaverse promises to bring new levels of social connectedness, mobility ...

On Meta's third-quarter earnings call, "compute," "capacity," and "novel" were the words of the night. "Metaverse," a peak priority a few years back, was not mentioned once. Among the company's social ...

Mark Zuckerberg says there's an end in sight to Reality Labs' years of multibillion-dollar losses following the company's ...

Meta continues to trickle out the bad news for VR. Meta continues to trickle out the bad news for VR. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent ...