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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A comparison of an original and deepfake video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual-reality universe, dubbed simply Meta, has ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin doesn’t believe that any of the existing attempts by corporations to create a metaverse are “going anywhere,” pointing to Meta as being one he believes will ...