When Mark Zuckerberg announced ambitious plans to build the "metaverse” — a virtual reality construct intended to supplant the internet, merge virtual life with real life and create endless new ...

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has unveiled a groundbreaking initiative to propel the metaverse into mainstream prominence. A dynamic working group, comprising key ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future — what Zuckerberg calls the “ metaverse.” Skeptics point ...

It was a cheap shot, especially given that most audiences enjoyed the film enormously, but the joke was given fresh legs recently when Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, grandly announced that his ...

Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki told CNBC on Tuesday that the online-gaming platform's business plan from nearly two decades ago foresaw the rise of the metaverse, an increasingly buzzy term on ...

Roblox, the online platform that blends gaming, social media, and remote user-generated content creation, was one of the big winners early in the COVID pandemic as millions sought to bond virtually.

What just happened? It's easy to imagine that someone who had lost $40 billion on a business venture would decide it simply wasn't worth it. But not Mark Zuckerberg when it comes to his metaverse plan ...

Our weekly roundup of news from Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Can the metaverse solve Japan’s “hikikomori” problem? Research and consulting firm Yuri Group estimates that ...

As Covid-19 forces families across India to downsize or cancel their traditionally large-scale weddings, one couple has found a venue unaffected by restrictions: the metaverse. Dinesh Sivakumar ...

When Mark Zuckerberg announced ambitious plans to build the “metaverse” — a virtual reality construct intended to supplant the internet, merge virtual life with real life and create endless new ...