Tech visionaries sold us the bizarre idea of a ubiquitous metaverse. While we stay in the real world, glued to our phones, the metaverse may flourish in specific use cases.
What failed as consumer hype is reemerging as infrastructure for AI agents, autonomous transactions, and machine-to-machine ...
(NEXSTAR) – Like it or not, it’s time to embrace the “metaverse.” On Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed his company — Facebook Inc. — would be rebranding itself as Meta, to better ...
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.
After changing its name and going all-in on virtual reality, Meta is scaling back its metaverse operations. But that could be ...
The race to build the metaverse – a vast digital realm where virtual and physical worlds merge – is already becoming a global power struggle. According to new research from the University of Amsterdam ...
In 1992, Neal Stephenson penned the cult classic “Snow Crash” in which a pizza delivery man, Hiro Protagonist, exists between two worlds: the sunny streets of Los Angeles and the mind-bending ...
The Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF offers exposure to companies advancing the metaverse, spanning infrastructure, software, and user interface technologies. METV is a capital appreciation vehicle, ...
Gaming companies have a leg up in the race to build the metaverse. When Mark Zuckerberg announced his company was changing its name from Facebook to Meta late last year, he was met with a range of ...
From digital runways to real-life wardrobes, the metaverse is reshaping how we dress. Here’s how virtual fashion is ...
So I was recently hanging out on a packed floor at a video game conference here in Los Angeles, when I entered this totally alternate reality. I'm surrounded by blackness but also huge company logos ...