After betting heavily on the metaverse—and spending many billions building it—Meta recently pivoted hard.

Discover how Meta leverages ads on Facebook and Instagram while expanding into the metaverse with VR technologies.

Meta is reportedly looking to slash spending on the "metaverse," the tech giant's suite of augmented reality hardware and software products. The company's push into the metaverse was the inspiration ...

When Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook to Meta (META) in October 2021, the founder and CEO presented the name change as the next step in the company's evolution as he sought to bring the metaverse to ...

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg recast Facebook as Meta and declared the metaverse—a digital realm where people would work, socialize, and spend much of their lives—the company’s next great frontier. He ...

Meta has announced that its social virtual world, Horizon Worlds, will shift toward a mobile-first experience, loosening its ties to the Quest virtual reality headset line. The decision, confirmed ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for ...

Since reporting its Q3 2025 earnings in late October, Magnificent Seven stock Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has been in a rut. Shares fell by more than 11% on Oct. 30 in reaction to those results, ...

It seems pretty clear that the VR-first future is not panning out. Remember when Facebook rebranded to Meta back in 2021? That move was very much ...