Our future was pronounced dead last week. I mean that glorious future of "The Metaverse," promised to us by Silicon Valley's ...

The idea of going to a comedy club in the metaverse is pretty much dead, and we can now focus on much bigger opportunities for virtual worlds to be useful.

Five years and more than $80 billion later, Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality dream seems to be being dismantled, and replaced with equally ambitious AI projects. We take a closer look in this edition ...

Zuckerberg’s $110B metaverse dream crashed because its developers didn’t seem to know exactly what problem they were solving.

If you’ve been busy dancing on the grave of Meta’s failed metaverse, I’m going to have to ask you to pause for a moment. In fact, you may just want to sit down and rest your non-virtual legs, because ...

The shutdown of Horizon Worlds is the clearest signal yet that the metaverse pivot has been quietly unwound as AI takes ...

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 ...

It’s Sunday, and I'm onstage at the Soapstone Comedy Club in the metaverse. My VR avatar is clad in a black suit, tie, ...