Facebook is soon to launch the invite-only beta of Horizon, on Quest and Rift, the company’s latest attempt at creating a first-party social VR experience. We previewed the beta and got to see several ...

I didn’t expect to like Facebook’s Horizon. So you can understand how conflicted I felt when I found myself annoyed that my delightful 45-minute guided demo, punctuated by bouts of shared laughter, ...

At Oculus Connect 6, Facebook’s annual virtual reality (VR) developers conference, the company announced its next big push into social VR. It’s called Facebook Horizon and is a platform for social ...

The game-filled space aims to be Facebook's metaverse, and it's being monitored for safety, too. Who will join in? I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, ...

Facebook Horizon is shaping up to be an interesting social VR offering with powerful building tools that will allow players to create and share their own worlds. But equally powerful are tools the ...

Facebook launched Oculus Horizon Workrooms, which aims to bring the so-called metaverse to work and collaboration. Maybe this mixed reality collaboration becomes the next big thing excluding items* ...

The excitement around a metaverse is growing, as it’s not just an idea from science fiction anymore. Facebook Horizon, a user-generated virtual reality world that is still in closed beta testing, ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Facebook is aiming to expand its user-created metaverse, and it already has a name, "Horizon Worlds," which the company has recently invested billions on, despite having no guarantees of success.

Facebook, at its core, is a social networking company, so it's perhaps not too much of a surprise it has a major social project in the works for Oculus. At Oculus Connect 6, Mark Zuckerberg announced ...