Mass layoffs at Meta as Twisted Pixel, Armature, and Sanzaru Games shut down

Twisted Pixel is known for its work on Xbox Live Arcade and Kinect games like 'Splosion Man, LocoCycle, and The Gunstringer. The Austin-based studio was acquired by Meta in 2021, and last year ...
Forbes

Requiem For The Metaverse — How It Went From The Next Thing To Nothing

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cortney Harding is an expert in VR, AI, and the future of work. Just under three years later, Bloomberg is reporting that Meta ...
NPR

What happened to VR and the metaverse?

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.
Business Insider

Meta's CTO said the metaverse unit is reshuffling. Read the memos.

Meta reorganizes its metaverse unit, shifting Vishal Shah to its AI division, per an internal memo. Gabriel Aul and Ryan Cairns now lead Meta's metaverse efforts, focusing on VR and mobile. Meta CTO ...
Ars Technica

Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which “personal [AI] superintelligence for everyone” forms “the beginning of a new era for ...
Forbes

Meta Pivots From The “Metaverse”, Signaling A Tech Realignment

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he would rename ...