Psychology Today

The Metaverse Is Gone for Good — Or Is It?

Tech visionaries sold us the bizarre idea of a ubiquitous metaverse. While we stay in the real world, glued to our phones, ...

Well, there goes the metaverse!

The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ...

The Metaverse Isn’t Dead. It’s Turning Into A Customer Data Powerhouse

Meta may have scrapped its Horizons Worlds platform, but new spaces are emerging where companies can gather unprecedented insights on customer behavior and intention.
CMSWire

Is the Metaverse Making a Comeback in Agentic Commerce?

What failed as consumer hype is reemerging as infrastructure for AI agents, autonomous transactions, and machine-to-machine ...
Homeland Security Today

COLUMN: Children Growing Up in the Metaverse: The Impact of Virtual Exposure on Social Skills and Threat Perception

As we move further into an era of virtual realities and hyper-connected digital landscapes, children increasingly grow up with profound exposure to the metaverse and adult content. With its expansive ...
CoinTelegraph

Majority of social media posts about metaverse show positive sentiment

A review of 86,565 social media posts related to metaverse technology showed only 14% negative sentiment. A team of researchers from the United Arab Emirates recently conducted a study to discover ...
Retail TouchPoints

Moving into the Metaverse: Social Commerce Provides a Blueprint

Editor’s Note: Be sure to check out Part 2 of this series focusing on evolving consumer perceptions of the metaverse. The metaverse is a new frontier for retail, but retailers can still look to past ...
Road to VR

Meta CTO: Metaverse Efforts Led to a “lack of focus” on Quest “at expense of user experience”

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth offered the first bit of insight into the company’s recent Reality Labs shakeup, publicly ...
CoinTelegraph

Dead metaverse? Public administration breathes new life into virtual tech

Germany is experiencing a renewed interest in the metaverse, which is focused on concrete applications in public administration and industry. Once hailed as the next frontier of human interaction, the ...
CNN

The metaverse is cooked, and Wall Street couldn’t be happier

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 ...
The Verge

Meta could ax up to one-third of its ‘metaverse’ budget next year

The budget cuts aren’t yet finalized, but they could impact the team that works on Meta’s Quest headsets and Horizon Worlds, Bloomberg reports. The budget cuts aren’t yet finalized, but they could ...
TechCrunch

Meta reportedly plans to slash Metaverse budget by up to 30%

Meta may be planning to make serious cuts to its Metaverse division, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. Company executives are mulling slashing the virtual reality platform’s budget by up ...