3D avatars are coming to Messenger, Facebook and Instagram, along with Super Bowl-themed shirts. Meta's head of Avatars explains to CNET what's going on. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.

To begin, there’s no universally accepted definition for the term. Some think of it as an enhanced successor to the current version of the internet—a new frontier for online interaction blending the ...

In a few weeks’ time, Mark Zuckerberg will announce a new virtual reality headset from Meta Platforms Inc. Embarrassingly, we already know what it will look like. A video of the purported device has ...

Facebook has a number of advantages over its competitors. Through Oculus, it's the clear leader in VR headset sales. The stock is so cheap that the metaverse business is essentially free. It's the ...

Facebook parent Meta touted the metaverse in its first formal pitch meeting with advertisers, saying some of its elements were already available. Meta shared how companies could take part in virtual ...

Mark Zuckerberg spent years insisting the metaverse was the next chapter of the internet, but the bill for that bet has finally come due. After roughly $70 billion in cumulative losses tied to virtual ...

Meta's Metaverse could be a new era in digital interaction — or a privacy nightmare waiting to unfold. Since Facebook changed the name of its company to Meta in October 2021, the term “metaverse” has ...

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, is as close to making the metaverse a household name as he did Facebook itself. For now, metaverse-related investments have been big money losers. (Photo by ANDREW ...

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In the 1990s, the internet upended almost every aspect of our lives. Then came smartphones, which allowed us to take the internet with us. And now, if you believe the hype, a new revolution is here.

Facebook-turned-Meta’s multibillion dollar metaverse project has a serious user retention problem. Internal Meta documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal have revealed that most Horizon Worlds ...