Over 1,000 Meta employees started off 2026 on a bleak note — they were laid off in mid-January from Reality Labs, the company's Virtual Reality (VR)-focused division.

After changing its name and going all-in on virtual reality, Meta is scaling back its metaverse operations. But that could be ...

Although Meta is making a sizable reduction to the headcount in its Reality Labs division, the company hasn't given up on the ...

Meta's losses on VR and what was once going to be the life-altering Metaverse are actually up on 2024, when it hosed $17.7 billion on the endeavour. Just for context, the VR division at Meta generated ...

On Wednesday, Meta’s earnings report showed that its embattled virtual reality business had lost some $19.1 billion in 2025, which is slightly more than it lost in 2024 (that year, the losses hovered ...

Meta's efforts to create the digital worlds known as the metaverse continue to be costly.

Abstract: Integrating immersive technologies in higher education has raised important questions about how Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) can improve ethical reasoning, especially ...

A majority of the workers laid off in the recent worker adjustment and retraining notification (WARN) filing stem from the company's "Reality Labs" division. California's WARN notice revealed that the ...

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Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and the world, providing us with an immersive world where we could seamlessly combine digital and ...

Abstract: Technological advances are redefining the relationship between physical and virtual spaces. Traditionally, when users engage in virtual reality, they are completely cutoff from the physical ...