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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI and XR for Forbes. With Crypto back in the news, interest in the Metaverse, ignored for the ...

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.

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, you may just want to sit down and rest your non-virtual legs, because ...

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 ...

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A version of this story will appear in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Shares of the company formerly known as Facebook shot up 7% early Thursday in ...

Last spring, At an event in New York City, Robert Triefus, then Gucci’s CEO of Vault—the brand’s virtual marketplace—argued the recent deflation in hype around the metaverse was just a brief hiccup.

In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which “personal [AI] superintelligence for everyone” forms “the beginning of a new era for ...

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, made a lot of money in its last financial quarter. However, its virtual reality and augmented reality division, Reality Labs, lost over $3 billion. That means that ...

Meta's big bet on the metaverse hasn't worked out, and its shifted investment away. But the metaverse, as stupid and silly and legless as it was, was a beautiful idea. Instead, now we have an internet ...