Meta’s consumer launch for its $1,299.99 VR Glasses never uses the word metaverse. The developer post a day later says VR is expanding, points builders to the Horizon Store and offers $1 million in prizes. Reality Labs still loses about $50 million a day. The metaverse is being built, just not named.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled SPECS at AWE 2026 in Long Beach, true AR glasses with see-through lenses priced at $2,195 and shipping fall 2026. Here is why the price tag is the point, what else happened at the world’s biggest spatial computing conference, and what it means for the businesses that missed the VR era.
R. Talsorian Games and CD Projekt Red’s collaborative sourcebook drops June 17 with 312 pages covering all 24 districts of Night City before the events of the video game. It is the most comprehensive official lore guide the Cyberpunk universe has produced, and it arrives as tabletop RPGs are growing faster than most digital entertainment categories.
Holoearth, Cover Corporation’s virtual world for Hololive VTubers, shuts down June 28, just two months after its 1.0 launch. When a company with millions of fiercely devoted fans cannot sustain a metaverse, it tells you something fundamental about the form.
Meta is moving Horizon Worlds off the headset and toward mobile and AI, after more than 80 billion dollars in losses and only about 200,000 active users. Is the metaverse dead? Not quite. It is a hard-nosed pivot toward where users actually are, and that is good news for creators and small businesses.
Discover how Apple's Vision Pro is redefining spatial computing, transforming entertainment, and taking FaceTime to the next level.
MEGA Hackathon League has recently announced the registration for MEGA Hackathon 2023. The event, which is scheduled to take place from April 14th to 16th, will be a hybrid Metaverse or in-person hackathon that challenges high school students to build projects related to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Metaverse, has the potential to revolutionize how we interact, conduct business, and consume entertainment. The global Metaverse market size was expected to reach USD 936.6 billion by 2030, with a staggering CAGR of 41.6% from 2023 to 2030. However, the sudden AI boom, fueled by the astounding growth of OpenAI's ChatGPT, has caused a shift in priorities for many companies, leading them to focus on AI projects rather than Metaverse initiatives.
