The Alexa app quickly connects new devices you add to your smart home with little effort on your end and lets you control devices from different manufacturers in one place. If a smart home device says ...

As virtual environments evolve from speculative concepts into engaged digital economies, forward-thinking organizations are presented with a transformative opportunity: building dedicated marketplaces ...

After changing its name and going all-in on virtual reality, Meta is scaling back its metaverse operations. But that could be a good thing for VR, experts tell Euronews Next. View on euronews ...

It is easy to make predictions, and even easier to critique those that others made in the past. Case in point: Gartner predicted in 2022 that by 2026 (yes, that's this year), 25% of the population ...

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth offered the first bit of insight into the company’s recent Reality Labs shakeup, publicly acknowledging that Meta’s metaverse efforts suffered from a “lack of focus” that ...

Meta’s enormous bet on virtual reality ended last week, with the company reportedly laying off roughly 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — about 10% of the unit’s staff — and shutting ...

Meta has announced that it is discontinuing the metaverse for work on February 16th, 2026. This is a virtual space for workers to collaborate and connect. The company clarifies that any data ...

The Meta Quest 3 VR goggles and controllers are shown sitting on a wooden tabletop with blue walls and a white door in the background. (Engadget) The news isn’t too surprising. Reality Labs has lost ...

In a nutshell: Remember how much faith Mark Zuckerberg had in the metaverse? He even renamed his company after the concept of a shared VR social platform. That was before AI became the tech industry's ...

Meta is laying off of 1,500 workers in its Reality Labs division as it moves its focus from the metaverse to smart glasses with AI. Even though it lost billions on VR, the success of its Ray-Ban ...

While many are still around, some have pivoted to other areas. Others have shuttered as revenue remains sparse, funding efforts have fallen flat, or the real world proved more interesting to consumers ...