Virtual reality was once promised to be the future of not only video games, but social media. Is that future still possible? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Vishal Shah, VP of the Metaverse, to find out.

The metaverse was supposed to be transformative. In March 2022, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it “the next chapter of the internet overall.” Three years ago, Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft, wrote ...

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Research of online victimization in the metaverse is sorely lacking. A new study explored harm in the metaverse and VR devices among a sample of 5,005 U.S. teens aged 13 to 17. Findings show a ...

Roblox features millions of such games, many of them generated by the very children who play them. Grow a Garden — essentially a remake of the legendary time-waster FarmVille — recently smashed ...

It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new car, the only way the automaker could check if the chassis would fit through the production line was to fly a team out and physically ...

The industrial metaverse is more than a futuristic concept—it’s already transforming how businesses design, operate and scale physical systems in virtual environments. By blending digital twins, AI ...

Infinite Reality Inc., a metaverse company that builds and powers virtual reality immersive digital media experiences for brands and creators, said today it will acquire agentic artificial ...

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dream of creating virtual worlds in which we can hang out with our friends, attend work meetings, and play games has been a disaster for a while now. The company has lost ...