LONDON (AP) — The term “metaverse” seems to be everywhere. Facebook is hiring thousands of engineers in Europe to work on it, while video game companies are outlining their long-term visions ...

The metaverse has been a hot topic of conversation recently, with Facebook and Microsoft both staking claims. But what is the metaverse? And when will it get here? Author Neal Stephenson is ...

"We believe the Metaverse will be the successor to the mobile internet," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the company's annual developer conference Thursday, where the company said it is ...

When Facebook changed its name to Meta in late 2021, it went all-in on its concept of a metaverse. For most people, accessing the company's metaverse, which is called Horizon, is as simple as ...

They envision the metaverse as online culture's liberation from tech platforms like Facebook that assumed ownership of people's accounts, photos, posts and playlists and traded off what they ...

The company needed a new identity. Thus began Facebook’s push for the “metaverse,” a virtual world made possible by what it hoped would be exciting new hardware. In the metaverse ...

Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined Facebook's future in the metaverse. However it's still likely a pipedream. Here's why. Last week, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg announced to ...

Although “metaverse” became a buzzword after Facebook changed its company name to “Meta” last month, many people are still trying to understand what exactly the metaverse is and whether ...

A metaverse largely run by Facebook—sorry, Meta—doesn’t sound like fun to me. With Facebook’s ambitions to create hardware and other technology for the so-called metaverse, it means more ...

Making it work will require competing technology platforms to agree on a set of standards, so there aren't “people in the Facebook metaverse and other people in the Microsoft metaverse ...

There's a pattern of Francis how Jin says she fears the same problems will occur in Facebook's new metaverse. I was shocked to hear recently that Facebook is, it wants to double down on the ...

Making it work will require competing technology platforms to agree on a set of standards, so there aren't “people in the Facebook metaverse and other people in the Microsoft metaverse ...