Five female VR creators discuss how their work and creative vision are shaping the future of the metaverse today. Environmentalist Leah Thomas and visual artist Vartika Jangid are imagining what …

2 days ago · Meta spent about $90B on metaverse projects, yet mainstream users stayed away. VR offices did not beat Teams or Zoom

A metaverse is a virtual world in which users interact while represented by avatars, [1] typically in a 3D display, with the experience focused on social and economic connection. [2][1][3][4]

Jan 19, 2026 · Meta’s vision at the time was that the metaverse would be the next big social platform, where users connected in a virtual world via Meta’s Horizon Worlds app and played games on their …

Jun 27, 2025 · While the metaverse is often seen as a joke in 2025 because of low user counts and poor financial performance, the industry may be thriving in ways the general public doesn't realize.

Dec 4, 2025 · After four years and billions of dollars wasted, the metaverse — a feature that Zuck believed in so deeply that he renamed the company after it — is more or less cooked.

Jan 12, 2026 · Late last year, Meta confirmed it would effectively be abandoning the metaverse, a nebulously defined project that spurred the company’s 2021 rebrand and has cost it over $70 billion …

Dec 4, 2025 · Meta is considering making cuts to a division in its Reality Labs unit that works on the so-called metaverse, said three employees with knowledge of the matter.

Jan 16, 2026 · Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too Meta continues to trickle out the bad news for VR.

Mar 7, 2024 · What happened to the metaverse? Learn the reasons for its fall and why it will, under new guises, transform how we work and live.