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

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

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 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.

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 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.

How Deepak Swaminathan, the great-great-grandson of U Ve Swaminatha Iyer, is looking to take his Tamil works to the global arena Tamil is a language. But, Tamizh is an emotion.

The metaverse has entered its flop era as tech companies switch their focus to artificial intelligence. That’s forced venture capitalist Matthew Ball to course correct too, by slapping a new title on ...