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  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
    Elaine Moore
    Meta must move fast to get its head in the VR game

    Investors are not yet won over by the metaverse, but if Zuckerberg succeeds in selling his dream it could revive the company

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    LexJune Yoon
    The Lex Newsletter: Epic’s Unreal Engine powers Sony’s realistic hopes Premium content

    Graphics software could slash costs for Japanese group across its music, movie and gaming businesses

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    Epic Games Inc
    Epic Games secures $2bn from Sony and Lego to build gaming metaverse

    Deal values Fortnite maker at $31.5bn as groups battle competition from Microsoft

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    FT MagazineDave Lee
    Training with a virtual Rocky has knockout potential

    The technology has got me working out every evening for weeks. Is VR fitness a revolution in waiting?

  • Sunday, 20 March, 2022
    Japanese start-up wants to cause real-life pain in the metaverse

    H2L’s tech will enable users to feel senses when they are in a virtual world as companies pile into sector

  • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
    Online MBA
    Business schools look to AI and VR to enhance digital courses

    Demand for interactive, personalised learning means the days of the ‘sage on the stage’ are numbered

  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    Jemima Kelly
    What Meta’s VR advert tells us about life in the metaverse

    The virtual world of the Super Bowl video is a radical vision of the future, but also quite a chilling one

  • Monday, 21 February, 2022
    Law
    Metaverse vs employment law: the reality of the virtual workplace

    It is unclear how employee protections apply in the universal digital realm. What counts as harassment? And can an avatar be discriminated against?

  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    LexGames industry
    Video games: hunt for the mobile mega-deal Premium content

    Microsoft’s deal for Activision Blizzard underscores importance of new model

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Lunch with the FT
    David Chalmers: ‘We are the gods of the virtual worlds we create’

    The techno-philosopher on meaningful life in the metaverse, building virtual utopias and why the ‘corporatocracies’ are becoming part of our brains

  • Friday, 4 February, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The Meta meltdown marks a turning point

    Slide in market value reflects multiple pressures closing in

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    House & Home
    Would you buy a home in the metaverse?

    Millions are being invested in virtual property — but what do you get for your money in reality?

  • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
    News in-depthMeta Platforms
    Facebook patents reveal how it intends to cash in on metaverse

    Meta hopes to use tiny human expressions to create virtual world of personalised ads

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Investors gear up for ‘gold rush’ in metaverse hardware

    US officials sit down with Russian diplomats in Geneva today to reduce security tensions

  • Wednesday, 5 January, 2022
    News in-depth
    Investors gear up for ‘gold rush’ in metaverse hardware

    Boom expected in ‘picks and shovels’ underpinning technologies such as headsets, sensors and chips

  • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Reality+ — looking forward to life in the metaverse

    David Chalmers’ rich and occasionally outlandish work of ‘technophilosophy’ argues that virtual reality is genuine reality

  • Monday, 3 January, 2022
    Lex
    Blue sky ideas: old avatars never die, they only soldier on Premium content

    What happens when virtual personas go on interacting with others even after the person they are based on is gone?

  • Friday, 24 December, 2021
    Artificial intelligence
    Facebook to build metaverse with start-up that had US military contracts

    Synthetic data company AI. Reverie will work within group’s Reality Labs division

  • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
    Richard Waters
    Year in a word: Metaverse

    Mark Zuckerberg’s pale, robotic avatar pushed a future made of virtual reality into public consciousness

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    8 min
    Nick Clegg's first interview in the metaverse

    Former deputy PM talks to FT's Henry Mance in avatar form about the role, influence and future of Meta, formerly Facebook

  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    Meta Platforms
    How will Facebook keep its metaverse safe for users?

    Internal memo from Andrew Bosworth lays out the scale of the challenge

  • Monday, 8 November, 2021
    Niantic opens up the race to create the next Pokémon Go

    Gaming company offers access to its augmented reality technology

  • Monday, 8 November, 2021
    Andrew Hill
    How business can make the most of the metaverse

    Evidence from Second Life, an earlier virtual world, suggests that immersion can stimulate leadership skills

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    #techFT
    The office metaverse could fuel ‘always on’ working culture

    #techFT talks to an occupational psychologist about the pros and cons of blending the physical and virtual worlds

  • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
    News in-depthMicrosoft Corp
    The battle to control the metaverse: Microsoft vs Meta

    Office workers will decide which tech giant dominates the more immersive virtual world

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