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Meta is laying off about 700 people at Facebook and its VR division reality Labs, according to a new report from CNBC. The layoffs come as…

When Meta announced its plan to shut down Horizon Worlds last week a lot of us laughed. Social scientist Dr Ruth Diaz was not one of them. Diaz…

Neal Stephenson speaks onstage during the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Austin Convention Center on March 16, 2022 in Austin, Texas. | Getty Images for…

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week,…

Meta’s “metaverse” has become the tech equivalent of Schrödinger’s Cat. It exists in a superposition of both life and death. Meta knows it can’t fully abandon…

A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company: 1) It’s very sad…

This week, Meta announced the latest evolution in its Metaverse strategy, and while it’s not totally unexpected, it is still a bit surprising. Horizon Worlds, Meta’s…

If you’ve been busy dancing on the grave of Meta’s failed metaverse, I’m going to have to ask you to pause for a moment. In fact,…

Epic Games and Google are burying the hatchet, but documents released today reveal that they aren’t only aligned on how Google is shaking things up for…

Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post…