The office real estate investment trust recorded what it claimed was the first formally recorded transfer of AR property rights.

Meta has released a new “ad” for its flagship virtual reality app, Horizon Worlds — and it’s so much worse than anyone could have predicted. The 44-second clip Meta shared on Instagram over the ...

At the heart of the metaverse derangement was the persistent inflation of its definition. McKinsey & Company proclaimed in June 2022 that the metaverse could generate “up to $5 trillion in impact by ...

Virtual reality was once promised to be the future of not only video games, but social media. Is that future still possible? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Vishal Shah, VP of the Metaverse, to find out.

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The start of 2026 delivered the final nail in the coffin for the metaverse, the digital world once hailed by Mark Zuckerberg as the future of human interaction. After putting all his eggs in this one ...

When Facebook changed its name to Meta, the entire tech sector looked towards what seemed to be the future of networks, communication, and commerce... until AI arrived. But the metaverse is still ...

The appeal of digital real estate comes from its scarcity and creative potential. Just as cities have busy areas where people live and work, metaverse platforms have busy areas where people gather for ...

Neil Stephenson introduced the metaverse as a concept in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, where he depicted it as a digital realm where users, represented by avatars, engage in a simulated reality.