Meta accounts and Horizon profiles arrive today, freeing Quest headsets from Facebook
Current users will need both by 2023 to continue using their devices.
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Mark Zuckerberg promises ‘major updates’ to Horizon avatars after his is widely mocked
Zuckerberg said Meta's headsets are 'capable of much more.'
Tinder scales back its plans for dating in the metaverse
The company is also losing its CEO and rethinking in-app currency.We have two newsletters, why not sign up for both?
Meta's revenue shrank for the first time in its history
And Meta's Reality Labs cost the company almost $3 billion last quarter.Meta Quest headsets will soon no longer need a Facebook login
VR users will instead need a new Meta account and Meta Horizon profile.
HTC's first new phone this year is the metaverse-focused Desire 22 Pro
It's compatible with HTC's Viverse ecosystem and Vive Flow VR headset.
Facebook Pay is now Meta Pay, and hopes to be the metaverse's digital wallet
Who could have seen this one coming?
Meta, Microsoft, Epic Games and others join forces to develop metaverse standards
The group's members, which don't include Google and Apple, will start meeting this July.
Balenciaga looks even worse on Mark Zuckerberg's avatar
Meta is launching an Avatars Store for digital fashion.
Meta's Horizon Home social space will arrive on Quest 2 headsets next week
You'll be able to invite friends to watch videos and play games together.
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Meta is reportedly axing some Reality Labs projects
More trouble in the metaverse.
Spotify enters the metaverse with Spotify Island on Roblox
The company says it's the first music streaming service to join the platform.
Meta's Project Cambria VR headset likened to 'a laptop for the face'
The company is reportedly planning to release four headsets between now and 2024.
Lizzo will perform in the first metaverse music awards show
You'll have to fire up Roblox to watch on April 30th.
Meta will open its first physical store May 9th
The store is near the headquarters for Meta’s Reality Labs division.
Meta teases a web version of Horizon Worlds
Creators would get a larger cut of their sales on the web, too.
Meta will take a 48 percent cut from sales in Horizon Worlds
This from the company that blasted Apple’s 30 percent 'App Store Tax.'
Meta tests letting creators sell digital goods in virtual reality
The company is also testing a bonus program for creators.
Epic Games receives $2 billion investment from Sony and Lego's parent company
No prizes for guessing that it'll use the cash to help build its vision of the metaverse.
