Soon after announcing that Horizon Worlds would be discontinued, Meta has taken a sharp U-turn. Here's what that means for ...

2026 gets another VR casualty as Rec Room announces shutdown, but Snap might have big AR plans for it.

Despite billions spent and years of hype, Horizon Worlds never caught on—proving that money alone can't build a social ...

Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon ...

Though still refocusing on its mobile app, Meta will now continue to support Horizon Worlds' existing VR games as well.

Meta is scaling back its metaverse focus, cutting studios and head count at Reality Labs to prioritize artificial ...

RIP Horizon Worlds VR.

Rec Room, another popular virtual reality hangout, is shutting down—further proof that the metaverse is dead.

Meta‘s metaverse ambitions are hitting a crossroads. In a move that marks a dramatic shift in strategy, the tech giant is ...

Meta knows it can’t fully abandon VR, even if the hype surrounding the metaverse and its Horizon Worlds virtual environment has withered to a shallow husk of its initial promise. Just two days after ...

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, has argued he and ...

He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Meta is reversing its plans to shut down its VR metaverse — sort of. On Monday, the company announced that it would be shutting down the ...