https://techxplore.com/ en-us Tech Xplore internet news portal provides the latest news on electronics, technology, and engineering. Meta Platforms Inc. is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company's Reality Labs division, part of a plan to redirect resources from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI wearables and phone features. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-meta-job-shifts-metaverse-ai.html Business Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:10:03 EST news687540074 From ancient slavery to the factory floor, progress has often relied on the exploitation of human beings. We might like to believe those days are well behind us. But in the digital age, AI and the metaverse risk repeating that pattern with new forms of invisible labor and inequality. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-metaverse-ushering-era-scenes-exploitation.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:49:19 EST news684506941 The race to build the metaverse—a vast digital realm where virtual and physical worlds merge—is already becoming a global power struggle. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-internet-visions-metaverse.html Internet Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:32:32 EDT news680358745 The integration of advanced technologies like augmented reality (AR) and digital twins is set to redefine the workforce's role, making humans an essential part of the manufacturing equation once again. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-metaverse-frontier-human-centric.html Business Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:07:29 EST news658418845 The metaverse is the next frontier in digital evolution and consists of digital spaces where people socialize, play, learn and spend money. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-christmas-metaverse-festive-season-virtual.html Consumer & Gadgets Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:03:03 EST news653576582 Having access to virtual worlds from your home computer via your web browser and being able to interact with others in a secure and private manner: that is the promise of metaverse platforms. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-reveals-vulnerability-metaverse-platforms-cyber.html Hi Tech & Innovation Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:31:04 EST news653311861 Virtual reality and the metaverse are setting the stage for new ways to watch sporting events. A new study from the University of Georgia suggests that users value the unique virtual interactions with others offered by digital events. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-metaverse-audiences-sports.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:15:16 EST news651244507 Within the next decade, Australia's retail sector could see a major overhaul, with companies taking up space in the metaverse to create brand awareness and to provide shoppers with a novel purchasing experience, according to a study published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-digital-avatars-reshape-metaverse.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:58:46 EST news650804321 The metaverse, a space where the lines between physical and digital realities blur, is rising among younger populations. As of March, 33% of teens own a virtual reality (VR) device and 13% use it weekly. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-10-dangers-metaverse-vr-youth-revealed.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:36:50 EDT news648830197 The Apple Vision Pro is the newest tool for Australians to access three-dimensional, immersive online environments, also known as the metaverse. Released in Australia earlier this month, it allows users to take a (virtual) walk in the savanna from their living room, watch sports matches in an immersive environment, or even buy a house after completing a virtual inspection. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-metacrimes.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:30:01 EDT news641556790 Europe is lagging behind both the United States and China when it comes to technology and innovation, top executive with US firm Meta Nick Clegg has told AFP. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-06-european-tech-pace-china-meta.html Business Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:07:40 EDT news638420856 New technologies have always informed and changed our religious experiences. Listening to early radio broadcasts in the 1880s was experienced by many as religious because radio voices seemed to come from some other dimension. Séances became wildly popular at the time because it was thought by some that radio had opened a door to the spirit world. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-metaverse-religious.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 14 May 2024 12:26:03 EDT news634908361 Virtual, immersive fan experiences in the metaverse are taking professional sports to a whole new level. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-sports-brands-appeal-fans-metaverse.html Internet Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:23:07 EST news628172583 Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney imagines the future of his Cary, North Carolina-based company will exist in the metaverse. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-layoffs-epic-games-ceo-believes.html Business Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:00:01 EDT news615729423 Mobile phones, smartwatches and earbuds are some gadgets that we carry around without much thought. The increasingly digitized world sees a shrinking gap between human and technology, and many researchers and companies are interested in how technology can be further integrated into our lives. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-framework-smooth-avatar-user-synchronization-metaverse.html Computer Sciences Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:05:05 EDT news615477901 For many technology enthusiasts, the metaverse—a virtual 3D environment in which the physical and digital worlds converge—has the potential to transform almost every facet of human life, from work to education to entertainment. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-metaverse-dent-global.html Business Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:48:57 EDT news606055730 Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday told employees that while Apple's mixed reality gear may be nice, it is not his vision of the future, according to US media reports. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-meta-zuckerberg-apple-vision-pro.html Business Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:49:32 EDT news605501368 When you first glide into Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality app from Meta Platforms Inc., you're greeted with a vivid cityscape and portals into worlds with labels like "adventure" and "comedy." On a recent visit to the "adventure" world, I zoomed around a town in the Wild West toting a Colt single-action army revolver and occasionally trading shots with three other avatars dashing between a saloon and a bank. The avatars sported sun glasses and multicolored hair, but were sans legs, a limitation Meta doesn't appear to have solved yet. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-metaverse.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:30:01 EDT news600531424 I climbed into the front seat of the air taxi, buckled the seat belt and braced as the aircraft lifted off. The futuristic cityscape of Busan, South Korea, dropped away, and a digital avatar popped up on the windscreen with a message. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-flights-firefighting-companies-metaverse.html Business Wed, 01 Mar 2023 08:19:41 EST news596881173 A team of computer scientists from UC Berkeley, RWTH Aachen and Unanimous AI, has found that users moving around virtually in the metaverse can be identified using nothing more than data received from head and hand sensors. The group has been studying privacy issues regarding users engaging with virtual reality ecosystems and has found that makers of VR games can easily identify who is involved by analyzing head and hand motion data. They published a paper on the arXiv preprint server. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-vr-users-metaverse-motion.html Security Wed, 22 Feb 2023 11:04:53 EST news596286289 In recent years, many computer scientists have been exploring the notion of metaverse, an online space in which users can access different virtual environments and immersive experiences, using VR and AR headsets. While navigating the metaverse, users might also share personal data, whether to purchase goods, connect with other users, or for other purposes. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-three-stage-authentication-metaverse.html Hi Tech & Innovation Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:10:04 EST news593431090 Immersive technologies that can better lives, whether helping people treat dementia or learn to pilot fighter jets, is the future of the metaverse, virtual reality startups say. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-metaverse-roses-virtual-world-display.html Consumer & Gadgets Sun, 08 Jan 2023 06:11:51 EST news592380707 The term "metaverse" is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry's imagination—and while Facebook parent Meta is the best-known entrant into this futuristic virtual concept, it's certainly not the only one. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-metaverse.html Internet Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:01:44 EST news592156897 In 1968, American computer scientist Ivan Sutherland predicted the future of augmented and virtual reality with his concept of the "Ultimate Display. The Ultimate Display relied on the kinetic depth effect to create two dimensional images that moved with its users, giving the illusion of a three-dimensional display. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-metaverse-possibilities-future-retail-industry.html Internet Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:50:02 EST news589466403 The Pacific nation of Tuvalu is planning to create a version of itself in the metaverse, as a response to the existential threat of rising sea levels. Tuvalu's minister for justice, communication and foreign affairs, Simon Kofe, made the announcement via a chilling digital address to leaders at COP27. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-11-entire-pacific-country-upload-metaverse.html Hi Tech & Innovation Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:50:12 EST news587911806 Robert Brunner is the associate dean for innovation and chief disruption officer at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Brunner spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about the transformative potential of the metaverse, an immersive 3D environment that seeks to blend the physical and online worlds. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-11-business-potential-metaverse.html Business Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:10:06 EST news587902201 Celia Pearce has fond, vivid memories of living a Second Life. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-11-zuckerberg-metaverse.html Business Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:36:04 EDT news586780559 It's hard to imagine a world untethered from your cellphone. Unless you work for Nokia. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-nokia-vision-future-world-metaverse.html Business Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:59:04 EDT news585503941 ETRI researchers have developed a metaverse platform that allows for freely collaborating among multi users via various means of communications online and offline. By overcoming existing technical challenges, it is expected to be of great help in the creation of various new services and its commercialization via realization of a practical metaverse. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-xr-based-metaverse-platform-multi-user-collaborations.html Software Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:18:29 EDT news585389903 Facebook parent Meta unveiled a high-end virtual reality headset Tuesday with the hope that people will soon be using it to work and play in the still-elusive place called the "metaverse." https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-facebook-owner-meta-unveils-vr.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 12 Oct 2022 03:59:32 EDT news584765969