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.

Facebook’s dream of the metaverse, a VR hellscape stuffed with annoying ads and screeching children, is as incoherent and confusing as ever after reading an 8,000 word essay by Nick Clegg, the ...

In a recent interview with Meta’s current CTO Andrew Bosworth on his “Boz to the Future” podcast, Carmack said that although he’s still quite “bullish” on virtual reality itself, he thinks his ...

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 ...

The metaverse is supposed to be the future, so it’s got the world buzzing with excitement. Hilariously, though, the prominence of the “futuristic” buzzword has caused old footage of digital worlds to ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. According to a report by The Verge, Meta’s Horizon Worlds metaverse app is so dreadful, even the people making it don’t want to use it. So if you woke ...

Is there crying in the Metaverse? On Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned his staff during an all hands meeting that he might tear up, citing a “scratched eye.” But Zuckerberg had reason to ...

Facebook parent Meta has invited ad agency execs to its first event to lay out its metaverse pitch. Meta has already pitched advertisers directly on establishing a presence in the metaverse. Ad execs ...

Facebook warned that its Reality Labs metaverse business will lose even more money in 2023. This year, the company is on track to burn through more than $10 billion on this endeavor. Shares of the ...