The metaverse failed without a rulebook

The keynote featured a bonkers video of Zuckerberg jumping between various CGI-rendered depictions of the metaverse in virtual reality. He visited a spaceship where the company’s executives were ...

Meta Has Announced the End of the Metaverse, and I'm a Little Sad

Turns out Zuck's Metaverse really didn't have legs.
AOL

Nobody mourns the metaverse: What went wrong with Zuckerberg's vision and what is next for VR?

The start of 2026 delivered the final nail in the coffin for the metaverse, the digital world once hailed by Mark Zuckerberg as the future of human interaction. After putting all his eggs in this ...
Engadget

Meta's metaverse is going mobile-first

Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post from Samantha Ryan, Meta's VP of Content, Reality ...
The Verge

Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR

Horizon Worlds is now going to be a platform that’s ‘almost exclusively mobile.’ Horizon Worlds is now going to be a platform that’s ‘almost exclusively mobile.’ is a senior reporter covering ...

Meta After Killing the Metaverse: ‘Just Kidding’

Meta knows it can’t fully abandon VR, even if the hype surrounding the metaverse and its Horizon Worlds virtual environment has withered to a shallow husk of its initial promise. Just two days after ...