In the wake of the global pandemic, the world of work has undergone a seismic shift. The traditional office, with its cubicles and conference rooms, has been replaced by home offices, coffee shops, ...

There are various schools of thought on the metaverse. Maximalists argue that it can be everything—that we can effectively work, play, exercise, shop and network in VR, coming up for air once in a ...

Meta spent about $90B on metaverse projects, yet mainstream users stayed away. VR offices did not beat Teams or Zoom ...

Before Covid-19 shut down Guangzhou, authorities in the province in China’s subtropical south were preoccupied with another virus: dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that causes chills and muscle ...

Meta recently threatened to fire employees who did not obey to its strict return-to-office mandate. But CEO Mark Zuckerberg is still enthusiastic about the potential of remote work—just not with the ...

There lies a space, essentially under constant development and change these days, that we are calling the metaverse. While not universal in nature, it is more like a vast network of potential ...

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The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. But ...

We cannot imagine a life without the internet today. It is inherently wonderful but fundamentally chaotic. We shop, bank, chat, and play through it. Whatever we do, we do it online nowadays. Yet there ...

The workplace of the 2020s already looks vastly different from what we could have imagined just a couple of years ago. Now, the metaverse promises to bring new levels of social connectedness, mobility ...

After changing its name and going all-in on virtual reality, Meta is scaling back its metaverse operations. But that could be ...

Imagine a world where you could have a beachside conversation with your colleagues, take meeting notes while floating around a space station, or teleport from your office in London to New York, all ...