Meta's metaverse is going mobile — and leaving VR behind

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears a virtual reality headset

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Meta plans price hike for its virtual reality devices, internal memo shows

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Mark Zuckerberg attends the 2025 Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Santa Monica, California.

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Meta delays release of new mixed reality glasses code-named 'Phoenix' in order to 'get the details right'

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Mark Zuckerberg wearing holographic glasses at Meta Connect 2024

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg went all in on the metaverse. Now Reality Labs is facing big cuts.

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In 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook to Meta as part of his focus on the metaverse. Facebook

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How Mark Zuckerberg's old teaching assistant at Harvard rose to become Meta's CTO and a key lieutenant

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Andrew Bosworth joined Facebook, now Meta, in 2006 and has risen to become its chief technology officer.

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It turns out Mark Zuckerberg does have a breaking point with spending on Meta's metaverse ambitions

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Meta is reportedly tightening purse strings for its Reality Labs division.

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