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The metaverse was supposed to be transformative. In March 2022, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it “the next chapter of the internet overall.” Three years ago, Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft, wrote ...

Over the past few years, the metaverse has been increasingly gaining prominence in the mainstream, with companies like The Sandbox becoming recognizable names even beyond the realm of Web3. However, ...

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.

While the metaverse is often seen as a joke in 2025 because of low user counts and poor financial performance (take Meta's Reality Labs division and its continued losses, estimated by Statista at $70 ...

Remember the Metaverse? It seemed like a good idea at the time. It all started in 2021, when Facebook rebranded to Meta and pledged $10 billion to build technology that could make reality totally ...

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 ...