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.

At the heart of the metaverse derangement was the persistent inflation of its definition. McKinsey & Company proclaimed in June 2022 that the metaverse could generate “up to $5 trillion in impact by ...

Meta is dialing back its metaverse ambitions and redirecting resources toward AI-powered glasses and wearable technology, the company told FOX Business on Thursday. The shift follows reports that Meta ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meta Platforms is redirecting its Horizon Worlds platform towards smartphones, marking a decisive pivot away from its earlier emphasis on Quest virtual reality headsets as the primary gateway to its ...

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.