Articles about Metaverse

Meta laying off 331 workers in Washington state as part of broader cuts to Reality Labs division

The heaviest hit facility is the Reality Labs office in Redmond, followed by the Spring District office in Bellevue, according to a state filing. Read More

Report: Meta plans to cut around 10% of Reality Labs workforce

The division — which employs roughly 15,000 people — has a strong presence in the Seattle area and is responsible for the company’s “metaverse” technologies that work in conjunction with augmented and virtual reality. Read More

Lamina1 and Weta join forces with Seattle sci-fi author to create a virtual universe

A digital content platform inspired by Seattle science-fiction author Neal Stephenson’s vision of the metaverse is collaborating with Weta Workshop,… Read More

Analysis: Apple’s Vision Pro sets up a clash with Valve, Sony, Meta over future of VR/AR

Apple newly announced headset positions the company as a contender in the evolving field of virtual and augmented reality, and… Read More

Avalara co-founder leads new advisory firm helping companies create digital assets

Rory Rawlings was able to see around a corner when he launched tax compliance software giant Avalara. Now the Seattle-area… Read More

Decades after creating a sci-fi metaverse, Neal Stephenson works on making it real

Microsoft and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, have their own visions for a virtual world called the metaverse — but an… Read More

Meta’s new Seattle leader: ‘The road to the metaverse passes through the Pacific Northwest’

In Paresh Rajwat‘s 20-year journey across the tech landscape, he’s held leadership positions at Apple, Criteo, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. For… Read More

Spot, a Seattle metaverse startup for hybrid workforces, raises $5.5M

New funding: Spot, a Seattle-based startup building a Sims-esque metaverse platform for businesses, has raised a $5.5 million seed round.… Read More

Touching the metaverse: Haptic glove maker HaptX grabs $23M to fuel commercialization

HaptX, the Redmond, Wash.-based makers of haptic gloves for use in virtual reality and robotics, has raised $23 million in… Read More

‘Metaverse’ is in, ‘mixed reality’ out: Reading the tech tea leaves in Microsoft’s new words

Microsoft’s future just got a major edit. The metaverse, hybrid work, flexibility, trust, and technology’s role in the global economy… Read More

Several avatars chat at a coffee house in Second Life.

‘Second Life’ creator shares lessons learned from one of the world’s first metaverses

Philip Rosedale has spent a lot of time thinking about the “metaverse,” long before it became a buzzword in today’s tech… Read More

AR/VR eyewear company Innovega strikes deal with global supplier of technology for visually impaired

Innovega Inc., a Bellevue, Wash., company that uses disposable contact lenses in combination with high-tech glasses to create a digitally… Read More

Pedal to the metaverse: This Seattle techie found real-world pain driving on a simulated racetrack

Frank Chang loves to drive fast. When he races, he can feel the vibration of the road beneath him, the… Read More

Expedia CEO says maybe the metaverse emerges in 100 years, predicts more interest in the ‘real-verse’

The metaverse may be all of the rage these days. But Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern doesn’t think we’ll be… Read More

We asked seven venture capitalists if the metaverse is the next big thing or just a lot of hype

What is the metaverse? How far off is it? And will this represent a tectonic technological platform shift — along… Read More

Seattle startup calls Meta’s VR glove prototype ‘substantively identical’ to its own patented tech

Meta made a big announcement Tuesday about how it hopes to bring touch to the virtual world through the use… Read More

Neal Stephenson talks about his climate thriller — and why the metaverse didn’t match his vision

This whole metaverse thing hasn’t turned out exactly the way Seattle novelist Neal Stephenson thought it would when he came… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Facebook’s virtual reality, Amazon’s new reality, and Microsoft’s big milestone

This week on the GeekWire Podcast … We dissect Amazon’s earnings, offering our take on Andy Jassy’s take on the… Read More