Meta Platforms will shut down its Horizon Worlds metaverse for virtual reality users in June, pivoting to a mobile-only experience as it retreats from the aggressive metaverse push it championed just ...

Meta Platforms Inc. said that users of its Quest headsets will lose access to Horizon Worlds, a virtual destination where cartoon versions of people can meet up and play games, marking the latest ...

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, made a lot of money in its last financial quarter. However, its virtual reality and augmented reality division, Reality Labs, lost over $3 billion. That means that ...

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 ...

Virtual reality was once promised to be the future of not only video games, but social media. Is that future still possible? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Vishal Shah, VP of the Metaverse, to find out.

More than 1,000 Meta employees — the ones who brought you the metaverse — are now looking for work. The company behind Facebook and Instagram laid off more than 1,000 employees from its Virtual ...

When Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta in 2021, he estimated the metaverse could reach a billion people over a decade. Not long after, Bill Gates predicted that within two or three years ...

So I was recently hanging out on a packed floor at a video game conference here in Los Angeles, when I entered this totally alternate reality. I'm surrounded by blackness but also huge company logos ...