RIP the metaverse.

Meta is accelerating its pivot away from virtual reality, just over four years after changing its name.

In December 2025, Facebook users shared a rumor claiming Meta signed into policy a "new Facebook rule" allowing the company the rights to users' photos starting "tomorrow." According to the posts, a ...

Meta is adjusting its vision of the digital future. Where the Facebook name had to give way to ‘Meta’, because: metaverse is the future, now the group is now closing the production studios of those ...

Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg, even changed the company’s name from Facebook to Meta and spent billions of dollars on the ...