(NEXSTAR) – Like it or not, it’s time to embrace the “metaverse.” On Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed his company — Facebook Inc. — would be rebranding itself as Meta, to better ...

Mark Zuckerberg said the metaverse would be the future of his company - and the entire internet. Now, after tens of billions ...

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.

To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec While the metaverse is often seen as a joke in 2025 because of low user counts and poor ...

When Meta unveiled Horizon Worlds in 2021, it billed the platform as the future of the internet—a sprawling virtual playground where work, play, and social life would merge in VR. I saw it differently ...

The race to build the metaverse – a vast digital realm where virtual and physical worlds merge – is already becoming a global power struggle. According to new research from the University of Amsterdam ...

It is easy to make predictions, and even easier to critique those that others made in the past. Case in point: Gartner predicted in 2022 that by 2026 (yes, that's this year), 25% of the population ...

Gaming companies have a leg up in the race to build the metaverse. When Mark Zuckerberg announced his company was changing its name from Facebook to Meta late last year, he was met with a range of ...

In 2021, Facebook renamed itself "Meta" because it was the first part of the word "metaverse." This is fitting because "leg" is the first part of the word legacy, and the absence of legs will end up ...

To many, the metaverse is a childish-looking virtual world where Mark Zuckerberg invites us to socialize as clumsy, lifeless avatars. Few accepted the invitation. Now that Meta is scaling back several ...

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company. A Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse ...

The race to build the metaverse—a vast digital realm where virtual and physical worlds merge—is already becoming a global power struggle. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...