It was three years old. The capital-M Metaverse, a descendant of the 1982 movie "Tron" and the 2003 video game "Second Life," was born in 2021 when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg changed the ...

But of all corporate forays into the metaverse, the loudest is, undoubtedly, that of Facebook, which in 2021 changed its name to Meta to reflect the company’s ambition beyond social media.

October 2021 Facebook changes its name to Meta Platforms to signal an expansion beyond its social-media platform to include online digital realms known as the metaverse. Meta announces it will cut ...

Facebook parent company Meta unveils plans to build a $1.1 billion new data center in Spain as part of its bullish plans to build a metaverse. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is investing ...

Key players like Facebook (Meta), Google, and Microsoft are heavily investing in this space, signaling its vast potential. As the Metaverse grows, it brings along several cybersecurity challenges.

early forms of the metaverse are already in development and being used by some early adopters of technology. Randi Zuckerberg, a former director of market development and spokeswoman for Facebook ...