The two companies have agreed to terms about a new class of apps that they’re calling ‘metaverse browsers.’ ...

After betting heavily on the metaverse—and spending many billions building it—Meta recently pivoted hard.

Meta has announced that its social virtual world, Horizon Worlds, will shift toward a mobile-first experience, loosening its ties to the Quest virtual reality headset line. The decision, confirmed ...

Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, ...

Meta is shifting Horizon Worlds away from VR and focusing almost entirely on mobile to reach a much larger audience.

The start of 2026 delivered the final nail in the coffin for the metaverse, the digital world once hailed by Mark Zuckerberg as the future of human interaction. After putting all his eggs in this one ...

Neil Stephenson introduced the metaverse as a concept in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, where he depicted it as a digital realm where users, represented by avatars, engage in a simulated reality.

Meta said it's shifting focus for Horizons Worlds to be "almost exclusively mobile" and that it will separate its Quest VR ...

The term "metaverse" has been around for decades but has recently gained significantly more attention as tech companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Roblox have invested in shared virtual spaces where ...

The Welsh Government has invested more than £1. 2million in a virtual reality educational platform designed to lecture students about "white privilege".

Tech, media and telecom executives see the potential that metaverse can bring to businesses in terms of higher profits and lower operating expenses. But a similar proportion acknowledged that, despite ...