Image courtesy by QUE.com The Return of Hugo Barra to Meta Signals a New Era in AI Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has been ...

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Meta said its road to the metaverse ran through Seattle. Recent layoffs point to a dead end. Meta laid off hundreds of employees on Wednesday, about two months after a sweeping workforce reduction at ...

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Meta Platforms is retreating further from the metaverse, scaling back a once-central pillar of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's long-term vision in favor of a renewed focus on artificial intelligence ...

Though still refocusing on its mobile app, Meta will now continue to support Horizon Worlds' existing VR games as well. Now it seems as though Meta has partially reversed its decision, with CTO Andrew ...

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Meta's Horizon Worlds will be available on Quest headsets for a while after all, after originally aiming for a June 15 hard shutdown. But it won't support anything new. I started with CNET reviewing ...

Meta Platforms (META) is abandoning its failed metaverse bet to concentrate spending on AI data centers and glasses products that tripled in sales during 2025, while maintaining a $200.97 billion ...

Update: 3/19/2026 Meta has announced it's actually not planning to pull the plug on Horizon Worlds for VR after all. According to the company's CTO CTO Andrew Bosworth, the experience will remain open ...

Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support. Credit...Paul Windle Supported by By Eli Tan and Mike ...