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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 has a number of advantages over its competitors. Through Oculus, it's the clear leader in VR headset sales. The stock is so cheap that the metaverse business is essentially free. It's the ...

Meta's Metaverse could be a new era in digital interaction — or a privacy nightmare waiting to unfold. Since Facebook changed the name of its company to Meta in October 2021, the term “metaverse” has ...

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, ...

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 ...

On Monday, Facebook parent company Meta announced that it has designed and partially built an artificial intelligence supercomputer that the company believes is among the fastest in the world and that ...

Facebook parent Meta has invited ad agency execs to its first event to lay out its metaverse pitch. Meta has already pitched advertisers directly on establishing a presence in the metaverse. Ad execs ...