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.

At the heart of the metaverse derangement was the persistent inflation of its definition. McKinsey & Company proclaimed in June 2022 that the metaverse could generate “up to $5 trillion in impact by ...

In October 2024, FINRA released its blueprint for the securities industry’s use of the metaverse — the metaverse report. The metaverse, often framed as “the next evolution of today’s internet,” is a ...

Translucia is a Thailand-led metaverse initiative launched by T&B Media Global. It’s framed as a full virtual world where people can interact, attend experiences, and take part in commerce. For brands ...

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 ...

Before generative AI shook everything up, the metaverse was the next big thing. Now, it's "AI and the metaverse." For those with short attention spans, a social media company named Facebook changed ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . It has been nearly 2 years since the first ophthalmology meeting was held in the metaverse. The Digital ...

Together, these findings indicate that astrocytes undergo profound sex- and region-specific adaptations to chronic ethanol, implicating extracellular matrix and glycosaminoglycan remodeling as key ...

This post was co-authored by Asia Eaton, Ph.D., and Sophie Maddocks, M.A. After Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be changing its name to “Meta” in 2021, the hype surrounding the metaverse ...

Mark Zuckerberg spent years insisting the metaverse was the next chapter of the internet, but the bill for that bet has finally come due. After roughly $70 billion in cumulative losses tied to virtual ...