Virtual reality was once promised to be the future of not only video games, but social media. Is that future still possible? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Vishal Shah, VP of the Metaverse, to find out.

Remember all the hype around the metaverse in education? Just two years ago it seemed like a 3D virtual realm for education was imminent: Facebook had changed its name to Meta, to signal its giant bet ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Tor Karsvalt is an unusual head of state for several reasons.

The metaverse was supposed to be transformative. In March 2022, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it “the next chapter of the internet overall.” Three years ago, Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft, wrote ...

Meta lost $77 billion on the metaverse gamble in five years. Zuckerberg is shifting focus from metaverse to AI, cutting up to 30% in Reality Labs. Investors welcomed the shift; experts cite high ...

It is easy to make predictions, and even easier to critique those that others made in the past. Case in point: Gartner predicted in 2022 that by 2026 (yes, that's this year), 25% of the population ...

Last year, artificial intelligence and metaverse-related stocks outperformed the broad technology sector by double digits. The Application Software and Interactive Media sub-industries were the main ...