Tootfinder

just found out this exists 💩
https://identitymanagementinstitute.org/cmsc-web3-security-certification/

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp that renamed itself in the Metaverse craze less than five years ago, is reducing its Metaverse activity by 10% and laying off some 1500 employees.
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-reportedly-laying-off-over-10…

Vom Metaverse zur KI-Offensive: Mark Zuckerberg will Feeds, die nicht nur zeigen, sondern erzeugen. Du tippst einen Prompt, bekommst eine Welt – am besten gleich durch die Brille betrachtet. Social Media wird zur Bühne, auf der die KI Regie führt. Eintritt künftig wohl mit Abo. Meta bleibt sich treu: Visionär im Geschäftsmodell, blind für Verantwortung.
#Meta

Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media
During Meta’s Q4 2025 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he believes AI will be the next big social media format, making feeds “more immersive and interactive.”

The People Left Behind by the Metaverse https://www.404media.co/the-people-left-behind-by-the-metaverse/

Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse
Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.

"The same week that #OpenAI announced the imminent shutdown of Sora, its splashiest showcase for #AI, #Meta announced the shutdown of its splashiest showcase for the metaverse."
Brian the Merc…

AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop

After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform,
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of the final nails into the coffin of its metaverse efforts
— the ones that were once so central to its vision that it renamed the entire company after them.
This week, the Wall Street Journalreported Meta was laying off some 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division,
-- the department working on Meta’s virtual reality products.
As part of the …

Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails
The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.

from my link log —
The metaverse: Neal Stephenson’s prodigal brainchild.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/my-prodigal-brainchild
saved 2026-03-25

My Prodigal Brainchild
Reflections on the latest and greatest Death of the Metaverse

A Western Sydney council, Fairfield City, has been completely pwned by ransomware. It has been granted an injunction to stop people publishing stolen data, as well as a suppression order over details, including the council's communications with the hackers.
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Meta's Metaverse is dead, Western Sydney city council hacked and satellite image providers pressured
Plus: Kagi will translate LinkedIn speak, or Australian, or, really, anything

Almost like they're chopped off the metaverse at the knees…
So visionary that they renamed and redirected the company after the wrong technology trend.

Neal Stephenson says he no longer believes head-mounted displays are the future, citing public discomfort with the devices and a general distrust of the users (Neal Stephenson/Graphomane)
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/my-prodigal-brainchild

My Prodigal Brainchild
Reflections on the latest and greatest Death of the Metaverse

> I would ask the rhetorical question: “do you really think that twenty years from now everyone is still going to be going around all day staring at little rectangles in their hands?” At the time it seemed obvious to me that the answer was no.
> Reader, I have changed my mind.
https://nealstephens…

My Prodigal Brainchild
Reflections on the latest and greatest Death of the Metaverse

Behind the Blog: Marathon and the Metaverse https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-marathon-and-the-metaverse/

[sitting in my VRML-generated Java Applet that floats through the Metaverse, powered by Flash and Silverlight]
AI is here to stay!

The metaverse VR (legless virtual reality environment by Meta) will be shut down on June 15. https://communityforums.atmeta.com/blog/AnnouncementsBlog/updates-to-your-meta-quest-experience-in-2026/1369435
Metas Realit…

Reality Labs lost $80B , but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-mark-zuckerber…

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg didn't lose $80 billion on the metaverse
In 2021, Zuckerberg said Facebook was becoming a metaverse company. He's stopped saying that — but he's still putting money into metaverse-y things.

Meta says it is "explicitly separating" Quest VR from its Worlds platform, making Worlds "almost exclusively mobile", letting it better compete with Roblox (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/881647/meta-vr-mobile-metaverse-ho…

Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR
Meta is shifting its Horizon Worlds strategy to make the platform “almost exclusively” for mobile while separating Quest VR from it.

Podcast: The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-company-secretly-turning-your-zoom-meetings-into-podcasts/

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Meta is discontinuing Horizon Workrooms and Meta Horizon managed services, amidst its many VR layoffs.

Going all-in on the Metaverse.

Meta says Quest users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds on the headsets on June 15; access will continue on the Meta Horizon mobile app (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17/meta-to-disc…