After layoffs, Meta shuts down Workrooms & rethinks metaverse

The parent company of Facebook, Meta, has announced that it will discontinue the metaverse for work, too. The Horizon ...

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

Meta will also no longer sell its headsets and software as a service for businesses, another help page reads: “We are ...

What was the metaverse?

Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on. Late last year, ...
Forbes

How Secure Is The Metaverse? (A Look At Cyber Threats And Defenses)

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary cybersecurity and online privacy issues. May 22, 2024, 03:17am EDT Man wearing VR glasses virtual ...
ZDNet

The metaverse has virtually disappeared. Here's why it's generative AI's fault

If a year is a long time in technology, then two years is practically a lifetime. At the back end of 2021, everyone was talking about the metaverse. Two years later and practically no one is talking ...
Ars Technica

Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which “personal [AI] superintelligence for everyone” forms “the beginning of a new era for ...