Despite a burst of popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the AR/VR industry now seems adrift as companies try to decide ...
Christmas 2024 might have been a record time of sales for Meta's virtual reality and augmented reality products, but 2025 is proving to be a very different year for the company's Reality Labs division ...
Meta is slated to layoff around 10 percent of staff at its Reality Labs XR division, a New York Times report maintains, as the company appears to be shifting focus to AI and smart glasses. According ...
Many companies are investing heavily in headsets and smart glasses. However, Meta is expected to take the cake. According to a recent report from the Financial Times, Meta could end up investing as ...
Meta lost $77 billion in XR. Does that mean XR is dead, or are all the benefits accruing to robotics? And ... maybe ... smart glasses?
Meta's Reality Labs unit, which houses its metaverse technologies, recorded an operating loss of $4.48 billion in the second quarter. Since late 2020, the Reality Labs unit has generated cumulative ...
Reality Labs, Meta’s XR division formed in 2020, is now being reorganized into two distinct groups, ‘Wearables’ and ‘Metaverse’, which reportedly comes along a “relatively small” number of layoffs. As ...
The VR experience is too unwieldy to become a daily habit; we need a big virtual screen, or several. With an Xbox-branded headset, Meta leans into what can get more people to use its tech regularly. I ...