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techcrunch.com - Aisha Malik - Meta's metaverse leaves virtual reality
Meta's metaverse leaves virtual reality
TechCrunch

Meta has announced a major update for its immersive virtual world, Horizon Worlds, on Thursday that will see it leave the metaverse behind. The tech giant said it's shifting focus for Horizons Worlds to be “almost exclusively mobile”…

kotaku.com - Zack Zwiezen - Meta's Virtual Reality App Ditching VR To Make A Roblox Clone - Kotaku
Meta's Virtual Reality App Ditching VR To Make A Roblox Clone - Kotaku
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More

In 2021, Facebook became Meta and the company claimed its focus would be to “ bring the metaverse to life. ” It launched Horizon Worlds, a VR metaverse that people could explore and create worlds in. It looked bad and wasn't great…

marketbeat.com - Promising Virtual Reality Stocks To Research - February 19th
Promising Virtual Reality Stocks To Research - February 19th
MarketBeat

NVIDIA and Meta Deepen Their AI Alliance—and the Spending Numbers Are Enormous Meta Platforms, zSpace, and The Glimpse Group are the three Virtual Reality stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Virtual reality…

businessinsider.com - Pranav Dixit - Meta's metaverse is going mobile - and leaving VR behind
Meta's metaverse is going mobile - and leaving VR behind
Business Insider

Meta is dialing back the metaverse to mean something far less futuristic: an app on your phone. The company, which spent billions of dollars to build Horizon Worlds — an immersive, virtual hangout zone on its Quest virtual reality headsets…

lifehacker.com - Stephen Johnson - Meta Is Taking VR Out of 'Horizon Worlds
Meta Is Taking VR Out of 'Horizon Worlds
Lifehacker

Meta just announced a seismic change to its 3D social platform Horizon Worlds. The company is removing Meta Quest users to focus on mobile users. So Horizon Worlds, originally a VR-only platform, now a mix of both VR users and mobile users, will…

travelweekly.co.uk - 'Royal on the Road' kicks off as senior leaders visit agencies
'Royal on the Road' kicks off as senior leaders visit agencies
Travel Weekly

Feb 20, 202608:01 GMT by Phil Davies Royal Caribbean is taking sales and training experts into high street travel agencies as it ramps up trade support. The ‘Royal on the Road' initiative kicked off this week in the north of England before…

theconversation.com - Eduardo B. Sandoval - Humanoid home robots are on the market - but do we really want them?
Humanoid home robots are on the market - but do we really want them?
The Conversation

Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world's first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home”. Standing 168 centimetres tall and weighing in at 30 kilograms, the…

lifehacker.com - Stephen Johnson - Rumors Suggest Apple and Meta Are Betting Big on AI Wearables
Rumors Suggest Apple and Meta Are Betting Big on AI Wearables
Lifehacker

The next generation of Meta's Display smart glasses might come with a smart watch. According to a report from The Information, Meta's watch, codenamed Malibu 2, could feature fitness tracking features and AI, but its real purpose is to replace the…

tvtechnology.com - Tom Butts - 2026 HPA Tech Retreat Explores Latest Media Production Tools/Technologies
2026 HPA Tech Retreat Explores Latest Media Production Tools/Technologies
TV Tech

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.— For the thirty-first time, leaders of the television and cinema content production community gathered here in California's Coachella Valley to discuss the latest developments in media technology, industry trends…

digitaltrends.com - Varun Mirchandani - Metaverse just went mobile first, leaving VR behind
Metaverse just went mobile first, leaving VR behind
Digital Trends

Meta's latest developer update delivers a quiet but major shift in strategy: the company is moving its metaverse ambitions away from virtual reality and focusing almost entirely on mobile experiences. In its 2026 Horizon update, Meta confirmed it…

fortune.com - Alexei Oreskovic - Fortune Tech: Waymo's New York speed bump
Fortune Tech: Waymo's New York speed bump
Fortune

Good morning. Every politician knows there are certain times—on stage before a debate, for instance—that you need to shake hands with your rival. In the cutthroat AI business however, that kind of etiquette is out of style, as OpenAI…

mirror.co.uk - Elizabeth Mackley - I stayed at the beautiful unassuming market town that paved the way for holidays
I stayed at the beautiful unassuming market town that paved the way for holidays
The Mirror

It's an unassuming market town, nestled in the crook where Herefordshire meets Gloucestershire on the Welsh border. I'd never have guessed that Ross-On-Wye is the birthplace of British tourism, and THE holiday destination of the late 18th and early…

indianexpress.com - Shalini Langer - Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die movie review: Sam Rockwell can't save this sci-fi mess
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die movie review: Sam Rockwell can't save this sci-fi mess
The Indian Express

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die movie review: A doomsday scenario about Artificial Intelligence, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is like the product of an AI tool which is still finding its feet. So there is a lot of information, and tonnes of…

gam3s.gg - Eliza Crichton-Stuart - Meta Turns Horizon Worlds Into Mobile Roblox-Style Platform
Meta Turns Horizon Worlds Into Mobile Roblox-Style Platform
GAM3S.GG

Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook, has announced a major shift for its social VR platform, Horizon Worlds. Originally launched as a virtual reality space where users could create and explore 3D worlds, Horizon Worlds will now pivot toward mobile…

benzinga.com - Rishabh Mishra - Meta Slashes Employee Equity For Second Year As Mark Zuckerberg-Led Tech Giant Gears Up To Fund Mega $135 Billion 'Superintelligence' Infrastructure - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)
Meta Slashes Employee Equity For Second Year As Mark Zuckerberg-Led Tech Giant Gears Up To Fund Mega $135 Billion 'Superintelligence' Infrastructure - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)
Benzinga

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:) has reduced annual stock awards for the majority of its workforce by approximately 5%, marking the second consecutive year of equity cuts as the company reallocates billions toward Artificial Intelligence. The move of…

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