When Cathy Hackl’s son wanted to throw a party for his 9th birthday, he didn’t ask for favors for his friends or themed decorations. Instead, he asked if they could hold the celebration on Roblox. On ...

To hear tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella talk about it, the metaverse is the future of the internet. Or it's a video game. Or maybe it's a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom?

In the few months since the announcement by Meta (erstwhile Facebook), the metaverse has witnessed its own accelerated maturation curve, with an initial upheaval of activity, heightened expectations, ...

ZDNET explores the ways that the metaverse is coming to life and how it will change the nature of work -- and maybe everything else, too. Read now These technologies and their developing successors, ...

If a year is a long time in technology, then two years is practically a lifetime. At the back end of 2021, everyone was talking about the metaverse. Two years later and practically no one is talking ...

When you think of the metaverse, you may picture a person playing a video game while wearing a bulky headset that covers most of their face. It’s not surprising that digital gaming is one of the early ...

An interface between the real and digital worlds will transform how we work, live, and interact. In partnership withSiemens Updated with a new afterword chapter in April 2024. The industrial metaverse ...