The Cool Down on MSN

Mark Zuckerberg's $80 billion metaverse endeavor officially scrapped: 'Sometimes we get things wrong'

"They glommed on to the term 'metaverse' without really understanding the concept." Mark Zuckerberg's $80 billion Metaverse ...

Prediction: Pivoting Away From Metaverse Will Help Meta's Stock Long Term

Shifting from the metaverse should boost Meta's profits.

The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality ...

Meta After Killing the Metaverse: ‘Just Kidding’

Meta knows it can’t fully abandon VR, even if the hype surrounding the metaverse and its Horizon Worlds virtual environment has withered to a shallow husk of its initial promise. Just two days after ...

The metaverse failed without a rulebook

The keynote featured a bonkers video of Zuckerberg jumping between various CGI-rendered depictions of the metaverse in virtual reality. He visited a spaceship where the company’s executives were ...

Fact Check: Satirical Post About Owning 'Eleven Properties In The Metaverse' Originated From Content Creator -- Not Real

Is the story of a man with "eleven properties in the metaverse" (including a "beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds") whose net ...

You're laughing. The metaverse is dying, and you're laughing.

In 2021, Facebook renamed itself "Meta" because it was the first part of the word "metaverse." This is fitting because "leg" is the first part of the word legacy, and the absence of legs will end up ...

Meta Has Announced the End of the Metaverse, and I'm a Little Sad

Turns out Zuck's Metaverse really didn't have legs.