MENLO PARK, Calif. -- For those who don't think Zoom meetings are a good enough substitute for the real thing, Facebook has another idea: a virtual reality app that lets you and your coworkers feel ...
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Meta insists VR not dead

Facebook burned $73bn and changed its name to "Meta" trying to make virtual reality take off, and its fortunes only recovered after pivoting into the AI boom. But the dream is not dead, despite ...
Meta cuts—and potential layoffs—could come as early as January 2026, and will see the company's virtual reality group significantly downsized.
Meta Cuts Metaverse Spending as Mark Zuckerberg Redirects Facebook’s Future Toward AI Growth - Will There be Layoffs? Mark Zuckerberg Instagram Shockingly, Meta head Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to ...
In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg recast Facebook as Meta and declared the metaverse — a digital realm where people would work, socialize, and spend much of their lives — the company’s next great frontier. He ...
Meta is planning a 30% budget cut to its metaverse division in 2026, shifting focus toward AI and smart hardware as investors react positively.
Ian says the gap between Meta’s vision of its Metaverse and real life never closed. Now that gap is now forcing Meta to make ...
Virtual reality rises from the ashes of the metaverse and sets its trajectory toward being the next big thing in the cryptosphere. The metaverse has seen significant hype over the last few years, ...
Mark Zuckerberg spent years trying to make the Metaverse happen, but now it has been replaced by AI and is headed to the tech industry idea graveyard.
The crypto-meets-virtual reality (VR) developer Victoria VR says it's working to release the first metaverse app from a blockchain-related company on the Apple headset "Vision Pro." The project's ...