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.

Mark Zuckerberg said the metaverse would be the future of his company - and the entire internet. Now, after tens of billions of dollars spent, it's quietly being shelved in favour of AI, writes Adam ...

Do you remember what the internet of the past looked like? Static webpages that took an age to load, blurry JPG images and lots of garishly colored text and backgrounds, those were the days! Well, the ...

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 ...

Yat Siu said the metaverse is evolving beyond immersive digital worlds, with AI agents increasingly handling commerce, ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The author of ‘The Metaverse’ discusses the new update to his 2022 book and how the Apple Vision Pro and AI fit ...

Remember the metaverse? It was just a couple of years ago when it seemed as if every technology, media and entertainment company was scrambling to adapt to a future in which regular people would live ...

When Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta in 2021, he estimated the metaverse could reach a billion people over a decade. Not long after, Bill Gates predicted that within two or three years ...

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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.