What failed as consumer hype is reemerging as infrastructure for AI agents, autonomous transactions, and machine-to-machine ...

Tech visionaries sold us the bizarre idea of a ubiquitous metaverse. While we stay in the real world, glued to our phones, ...

Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on. Late last year, Meta confirmed it would effectively be abandoning the metaverse, a ...

The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ...

Do you remember what the internet of the past looked like? Static webpages that took an age to load, blurry JPG images and lots of garishly colored text and backgrounds, those were the days! Well, the ...

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Meta is pulling back from its once-central virtual reality ambitions, as mounting losses and weakening demand force the ...

Remember the metaverse? It was just a couple of years ago when it seemed as if every technology, media and entertainment company was scrambling to adapt to a future in which regular people would live ...

In 1992, Neal Stephenson penned the cult classic “Snow Crash” in which a pizza delivery man, Hiro Protagonist, exists between two worlds: the sunny streets of Los Angeles and the mind-bending ...

Meta Platforms has initiated sweeping workforce reductions across its Reality Labs division, cutting more than 1,000 ...

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The cuts affected 10% of staff as spending shifts to its AI glasses and other wearables products.