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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...