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.

Facebook parent Meta (FB) is banking on the metaverse to save it from plateauing user numbers and competition from the likes of TikTok. But the social media giant blew its first real chance at giving ...

In October 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent his trillion-dollar social media company into a new direction. Facebook changed its name to Meta and Zuckerberg set his sights on a new horizon, the ...

The metaverse exploded into the public consciousness in October 2021 as Facebook, Inc. changed its name to "Meta" and announced multibillion-dollar investments in metaverse technologies. Despite the ...

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 one ...

A version of this story will appear in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. It appears Meta may finally be ready to put the metaverse out of its misery.

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 ...

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 ...

A version of this story will appear in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Shares of the company formerly known as Facebook shot up 7% early Thursday in ...