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

Meta spent about $90B on metaverse projects, yet mainstream users stayed away. VR offices did not beat Teams or Zoom ...

Meta has announced that its social virtual world, Horizon Worlds, will shift toward a mobile-first experience, loosening its ...

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

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

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

In general, Meta frames many of its recent moves as a pivot away from first-party development of VR experiences to a focus on a third-party developer ecosystem, with stats like “86% of the effective ...

The metaverse is arguably the next generation of the internet, forever altering how we experience life online. Don’t believe me? Think the metaverse is somewhat overrated? Or perhaps you’re bored of ...

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.

Esports has a pattern of community behaviour which traditional sports are envious of: chat streams, watching parties, co-streamers, reactions live. With the help of VR and metaverse versions of spaces ...

It is reported that the global metaverse market was valued at $105.40 billion in 2024 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46.4% between 2025 and 2030, reaching $936.57 ...