Many thought games like Assassin's Creed, Batman, and The Walking Dead were the future of VR. Turns out, they were wrong.

VR headset sales were down in 2022, reflecting waning interest in a buggy metaverse. Even if consumers wanted to engage with this technology, the current price of headsets makes it inaccessible for ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse dream is giving investors nightmares. His $10 billion annual bet on an “embodied internet” preceded a plunge in Meta’s value, a first-ever quarterly revenue decline, and ...

To hear tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella talk about it, the metaverse is the future of the internet. Or it's a video game. Or maybe it's a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom?

32.6% of U.S. youth own a virtual reality (VR) headset (41% of boys vs. 25.1% of girls). The metaverse, a space where the lines between physical and digital realities blur, is rising among younger ...

In the days leading up to the launch of the Quest Pro, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called the new headset a “great working device” — possibly even a laptop replacement. Gaming in VR is one thing — ...

When Meta unveiled Horizon Worlds in 2021, it billed the platform as the future of the internet—a sprawling virtual playground where work, play, and social life would merge in VR. I saw it differently ...

Back in late 2021, Facebook officially rebranded itself as Meta. At the time, it also announced it was pivoting to focusing on building the Metaverse, which was essentially a 3D world where your ...

The metaverse’s association with other struggling “Web3” technologies, namely blockchain, NFTs, and crypto — considered by some to be essential to the future decentralized metaverse — hasn’t exactly ...

It’s just over four and a half years since one of the biggest rebrands in Big Tech history took place. On October 28, 2021, ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

To the outsider, it may look like a souped-up version of Virtual Reality (VR) - but some people think the metaverse could be the future of the internet. In fact, the belief is that it could be to VR ...