Cryptopolitan on MSN

Meta winds down metaverse business with VR studio closures, job cuts

More than four years after changing its company name from Facebook to Meta, the tech giant is pulling back from its virtual ...

Meta's Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a 'VR winter'

Meta's deprioritizing virtual reality in favor of artificial intelligence and Internet-connected smart glasses raised ...
The Atlantic

The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work

One of the first sentences I was ever paid to write was “Try out lighter lip stick colors, like peach or coral.” Fresh out of college in the mid 2010s, I’d scored a copy job for a how-to website. An ...
Lawrence Journal-World

VR headsets are ‘hope machines’ inside California prisons

Incarcerated men use virtual reality headsets inside Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, Calif., Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Haven Daley) CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Jacob Smith has been in prison for two ...
Amaze Lab on MSN

Meta’s VR bet implodes after $70B loss, costing 1,500 jobs

Meta Platforms cut 1,500 jobs from its Reality Labs division on January 14, 2026, capping a four-year drive that burned ...
GameSpew

Worming from Home makes you a worm with an office job and its demo squirms onto Steam next week

What makes Worming from Home so appealing is that you’re not wearing some Earthworm Jim-style suit, you’re an actual wiggly worm, squirming around a keyboard, leaping into coffee cups, and doing ...