In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement that would reshape his entire company. Facebook was rebranding to Meta, ...

Meta Platforms started 2026 by laying off around 1,500 employees in its Reality Labs division, a move that highlights the fading glow of its metaverse dreams amid billions in losses and a clear shift ...

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg recast Facebook as Meta and declared the metaverse—a digital realm where people would work, socialize, and spend much of their lives—the company’s next great frontier. He ...

Meta is scaling back its metaverse focus, cutting studios and head count at Reality Labs to prioritize artificial ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It’s now two years since Facebook changed its name to Meta, ushering in a ...

Meta is laying off several hundred employees across key divisions — including Facebook and its Reality Labs unit — as it overhauls the company for the artificial intelligence era. The layoffs also ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. It is abundantly clear at this point that the last few ...

Imagine a world where you could sit on the same couch as a friend who lives thousands of miles away, or conjure up a virtual version of your workplace while at the beach. Welcome to the metaverse: a ...