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

In the 1990s, the internet upended almost every aspect of our lives. Then came smartphones, which allowed us to take the internet with us. And now, if you believe the hype, a new revolution is here.

The namesake metaverse is not the future of Meta Platforms after all. Now AI and wearables are supposed to drive the stock.

Facebook’s dream of the metaverse, a VR hellscape stuffed with annoying ads and screeching children, is as incoherent and confusing as ever after reading an 8,000 word essay by Nick Clegg, the ...

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, is as close to making the metaverse a household name as he did Facebook itself. For now, metaverse-related investments have been big money losers. (Photo by ANDREW ...

The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta’s work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on ...

3D avatars are coming to Messenger, Facebook and Instagram, along with Super Bowl-themed shirts. Meta's head of Avatars explains to CNET what's going on. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.

Facebook-turned-Meta’s multibillion dollar metaverse project has a serious user retention problem. Internal Meta documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal have revealed that most Horizon Worlds ...

The metaverse is no place for kids, according to a group of more than 70 advocates for children's rights and online privacy. Those concerned are asking Facebook's parent company, Meta, to abandon its ...

In a few weeks’ time, Mark Zuckerberg will announce a new virtual reality headset from Meta Platforms Inc. Embarrassingly, we already know what it will look like. A video of the purported device has ...

Facebook parent Meta touted the metaverse in its first formal pitch meeting with advertisers, saying some of its elements were already available. Meta shared how companies could take part in virtual ...

In the few months since the announcement by Meta (erstwhile Facebook), the metaverse has witnessed its own accelerated maturation curve, with an initial upheaval of activity, heightened expectations, ...