metaverse (Page 2)

Latest in metaverse

Facebook's Reality Labs metaverse division lost almost $14 billion dollars last year — so why has the stock price increased?

Facebook’s Metaverse Division Lost Nearly $14 Billion Dollars Last Year

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to the people actually already working — or attempting to work — in the Meta's Horizon Worlds metaverse, there are a lot of issues.

People Forced to “Go to Work” in the Metaverse Say It’s a Complete Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Roblox is allowing young children to play some seriously questionable games that should have parents concerned.

Mom Horrified by What Her Kids Are Seeing in Roblox

By Victor Tangermann

John Carmack has quit his advisory position at Meta — and took to the social network to blast his now-ex-boss on his way out the door.

John Carmack Quits Job Building Metaverse, Blasts Facebook

By Noor Al-Sibai

The European Union investing $400k into a 24-hour metaverse "beach party," only to attract a handful of guests — who all left within the first hour.

Man Alarmed to Become Only Guest at $400,000 Metaverse Party

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While trying to explain the pros of the metaverse, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared unable to stop hiccuping for some reason.

Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Explain Why the Metaverse Is Great, Gets Attack of the Hiccups Instead

By Noor Al-Sibai

Billy McFarland, scammer of Fyre Fest fame, wants you to invest in a not-metaverse metaverse project — and we have to say, we're confused.

The Fyre Fest Guy Is Off House Arrest and of Course His New Scheme Involves the Metaverse and Crypto

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Conviction is easy if you're surrounded by a bunch of yes men — which Mark Zuckerberg just might be. And $15 billion down the line, that may not bode well.

Former Facebook Exec Says Zuckerberg Has Surrounded Himself With Sycophants

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Metaverse world Decentraland hosted its version of the real life Ozzfest metal festival, and it was about as terrible as you'd expect to be.

Ozzy Osbourne “Performed” in the Metaverse and It Was Comically Horrible

By Frank Landymore

It's not a great day over at Meta, where 11,000 people just learned that they're out of a job as CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces mass layoffs.

Facebook Is Laying Off 11 THOUSAND Employees

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid his increasingly-embarrassing Metaverse push, Meta-formerly-Facebook investors are growing more and more upset at CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Many Facebook Shareholders Wish They Could Fire Mark Zuckerberg

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to this technologist, Facebook-turned-Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg isn't trying to revolutionize work. He wants to be the god of a digital heaven.

Interesting Theory: Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Become God and Build Heaven

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey criticized Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's infamous doubling down on the metaverse.

Founder of VR Company That Facebook Bought Roasts Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

A powerful Meta-Formerly-Facebook investor has some advice to get his company's mojo back — but it's doubtful that Mark Zuckerberg wants to hear it.

Facebook Investor Warns Zuckerberg That Metaverse Investments Are “Terrifying”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Internal Meta documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal revealed that most Horizon Worlds users don't return to the metaverse after a month of use.

Leak: Most Facebook Metaverse Users Have Quit in a Month

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Facebook's Metaverse slump continues, analysts are saying that CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have made a terrible miscalculation.

Analysts Say Mark Zuckerberg Has Made a Grave Error About Facebook

By Noor Al-Sibai

Say It Ain’t So! Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Legs Were Apparently Staged

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg’s New and Improved Metaverse Avatar Still Looks Like Crap

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta advisor John Carmack is "grumpy" about the current state of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse, as he explained at Facebook-turned-Meta's Connect 2022.

Top Facebook Consultant Admits That the Metaverse Is Absolutely Terrible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At Connect 2022, Facebook-turned-Meta Mark Zuckerberg and a fellow metaverse exec both appeared as their new, legged avatars. But only they had legs.

Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Maybe Has Legs Now, but Apparently Only for Executives

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One revelation from Facebook-slash-Meta's Connect? Soon, the metaverse will be a space where we can betray those closest to us. Hell yeah.

Facebook Exec Says Metaverse Will Let you Betray Your Friends in VR

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta-formerly-Facebook has unveiled its Meta Quest Pro, the long-rumored follow-up to the company's Quest 2 virtual reality headset.

Virtual Reality

Meta’s Uber-Expensive New VR Headset Is Dead on Arrival

By Victor Tangermann

Metaverse project Decentraland, a sandbox environment that allows users to buy and sell virtual real estate, isn't exactly teeming with people.

$1.2 Billion Metaverse Horrified by Report It Only Had 38 Active Users

By Victor Tangermann

Some Facebook execs have threatened to actively monitor Meta employee use of Horizon Worlds, which employees reportedly, uh, weren't using.

Facebook Employees Seem Completely Confused by the Metaverse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Zuckerberg's push to make Facebook's Horizon Worlds metaverse platform the next big thing isn't convincing even its own developers.

Facebook Leak: Metaverse So Glitchy Not Even Employees Use It

By Frank Landymore

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse project has been universally panned as a bad joke. And now, Apple CEO Tim Cook says he's also not convinced.

CEO of Apple Appears to Casually Diss Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

By Frank Landymore

If you didn't know that Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is extremely into fencing, he is. Casd in point: the latest Quest Pro promo.

Extremely Sweaty Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Mixed Reality Swordfighting Game

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The company formerly known as Facebook is planning to cut expenses by reducing staff and reorganizing existing teams and departments.

Facebook Reportedly Plotting Cost-Cutting Layoffs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's fortune has dropped by a whopping $71 billion so far this year, making him only the 20th richest person in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg Is in Big, Big Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

Neal Stephenson, the science fiction icon who first coined and popularized the term "metaverse," is pausing his literary career to build his own.

Guy Who Invented the Word “Metaverse” Building His Own Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you happen to have $7.77 million on hand, you can buy yourself a coveted slice of Alpha City land — by purchasing a real-world Miami Shores villa.

This $7.7 Million Miami Mansion Comes With a Metaverse “Twin”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Brands Say Everybody’s Wrong, Actually the Metaverse Looks Great

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Less than a year after Facebook rebranded for its "Metaverse," the head of Meta's virtual reality platform is leaving the company for greener pastures.

The Head of Facebook’s Beleaguered “Metaverse” VR Platform is Leaving the Company

By Noor Al-Sibai

People Bullied Mark Zuckerberg So Much That He’s Improving the Metaverse Graphics

By Victor Tangermann

Meet me in the metaverse. Virtual reality dating is here, and as The New York Times reports, it's growing — and frankly, it sounds, uh, super weird.

People Are Going on Dates in the Metaverse and It Sounds Very Strange

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Zuckerberg’s Lifeless Metaverse Avatar Is Comically Different From the One He Advertised

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's no way to sugarcoat it. Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse — into which Meta has been pouring billions — bot unfathomably bad.

Wave of Criticism Hits Zuckerberg’s Metaverse for Looking Like Crap

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Major Luxury Brand Slinging Hideous and Unaffordable NFT Pendants

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FTC launched an antitrust suit against Mark Zuckberg and Facebook/Meta, blocking — at least for now — Facebook/Meta's acquisition of VR company Within.

Gov Files Antitrust Suit to Stop Facebook From Buying VR Company

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a cringey video shared by Facebook parent company Meta's VR department on Twitter, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hands look very strange.

New Metaverse Vid Makes Zuckerberg’s Hands Look Super Strange

By Victor Tangermann

META, an art installation company, is now suing Meta, the corporation formerly known as Facebook, claiming that its identity has been stolen.

Another Company Called Meta Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company for Changing Its Name to Meta

By Frank Landymore

A developer used his speech at a gaming conference to trash talk NFTs, and was met with a huge round of applause from the audience.

Speaker at Crypto-Funded Convention Trashes NFTs, Gets Loud Applause

By Noor Al-Sibai

He dropped $18,000 on the Khorum Coast, a virtual property found in Entropia Universe, saying he hopes to see a return on his investment in just four years.

Man Uses Life Savings to Buy Nonexistent Metaverse Land

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

These might be major moves towards providing future users with a virtual reality system that human visual processes interpret as "real."

Virtual Reality

Zuckerberg Shows Off VR Headsets Designed to Be “Indistinguishable From Reality”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A United Arab Emirates’ official warned that committing serious crimes including "murder" should be made illegal in the metaverse.

UAE Official Says Murder Should Be Illegal in the Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's dream of the metaverse is as incoherent as ever, following an 8,000 word essay posted by Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta.

In Extremely Confusing Twist, Facebook Says It Isn’t Building a Metaverse After All

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like the Facebook Metaverse gambit may be showing more signs of implosion.

Facebook Reportedly Already Running Out of Money for Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Vatican is trying to jump on the latest trend: a digital art gallery for NFTs in the metaverse, a "public-private partnership" to extend its heritage.

We’re a Bit Confused by the Vatican’s NFT Plans

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group modified a virtual reality headset to simulate haptics on the mouth and kissing in VR.

Scientists Invent Weird Device to Simulate Kissing in VR

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Facebook has announced plans to monetize its Metaverse — and creators are extremely irate at how large a cut the company intends to take.

Zuckerberg Dogpiled Over Plans to Monetize the Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

New company will let you save your data in the metaverse and pay $50 per year to talk to avatars of dead loved ones after they die.

Startup Says You Can Talk to Your Dead Relatives, for a Fee

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Facebook whistleblower is back — and this time, she's implicating the Metaverse.

Facebook Whistleblower Warns That Zuckerberg Wants to Fill Your House With Microphones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mark Zuckerberg Says That When Employees Call Him the “Eye of Sauron,” It’s Actually a Compliment

By Victor Tangermann

A Japanese startup wants you to be able to feel pain inside the metaverse through a wristband that electrically stimulates its wearer's muscles.

Startup Says Its Tech Can Inflict Actual Pain in the Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

Heineken released a virtual beer in the metaverse and served edible gold and lobster, but one writer who attended wasn't impressed.

Heineken’s Metaverse Event Was So Awful, Even Tabloids Want Out

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A group of users on the metaverse platform VRChat have created a police force to question, arrest, and occasionally frame other users for crimes.

VR Cops Brag About Planting Fake Evidence in Metaverse While Disguised as Underage Girls

By Tony Ho Tran

A decades-old metaverse is introducing sales tax for the first time since its inception nearly 20 years ago, setting a precedent for taxation in the many burgeoning metaverses.

Uh Oh: The Metaverse Is Already Being Slammed by Sales Tax

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mark Zuckerberg has a newsflash for us all: the Metaverse is less of a place than a point in time.

Mark Zuckerberg Gives Galaxy-Brained Explanation of Metaverse’s Impending Singularity

By Noor Al-Sibai

Could the entire internet be generated by AI soon? At least one expert at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies is studying AI-generated content.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Say That Soon, Almost the Entire Internet Could Be Generated by AI

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A researcher posing as a 13-year-old child was able to gain access to a virtual strip club via a metaverse app called VRChat.

Turns Out It’s Really Easy for Kids to Visit Sex Clubs in the Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook, wants virtual AR content to interact with real world objects in mixed reality headsets and told ad agencies how ads can use the tech.

Facebook Reveals Plan to Plaster AR Ads Over All of Reality

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A former executive of Meta has left the company after a video of him allegedly attempting to solicit sex from a minor went viral on Thursday.

Facebook Exec Caught Allegedly Trying to Meet 13-Year-Old in Hotel Room

By Tony Ho Tran

Mark Zuckerberg announced during an all-hands company meeting that his employees wouldn't be coworkers anymore. They'd be "metamates."

Mark Zuckerberg Tells Employees They’re Called “Metamates” Now

By Tony Ho Tran

Fans Say the Foo Fighters’ Metaverse Concert Was A Total Disaster

Fans Say the Foo Fighters’ Metaverse Concert Was A Total Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai