He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Epic Games and Google are burying the hatchet, but documents ...

After betting heavily on the metaverse—and spending many billions building it—Meta recently pivoted hard.

Meta has announced that its social virtual world, Horizon Worlds, will shift toward a mobile-first experience, loosening its ties to the Quest virtual reality headset line. The decision, confirmed ...

The office real estate investment trust recorded what it claimed was the first formally recorded transfer of AR property rights.

Neil Stephenson introduced the metaverse as a concept in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, where he depicted it as a digital realm where users, represented by avatars, engage in a simulated reality.

The term "metaverse" has been around for decades but has recently gained significantly more attention as tech companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Roblox have invested in shared virtual spaces where ...

The post-Lehman Brothers tech industry was a bright star in an otherwise gloomy economy. Buoyed by record-low interest rates (which, in effect, translated into a near-limitless supply of investor ...

The metaverse, a virtual space for real-time interactions with digital representations of real people and objects, has become a hot topic in today’s tech circles. While still in its infancy, the ...

Tech, media and telecom executives see the potential that metaverse can bring to businesses in terms of higher profits and lower operating expenses. But a similar proportion acknowledged that, despite ...

The metaverse has entered its flop era as tech companies switch their focus to artificial intelligence. That’s forced venture capitalist Matthew Ball to course correct too, by slapping a new title on ...

Fans of Ready Player One will soon be able to step into a digital universe known as The Readyverse, and a new trailer for the platform offers a glimpse of what to expect from the user experience.