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Was The Metaverse Collapse Inevitable?

The fall of a tech dream

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Ben Domenech
Mar 23, 2026
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Spencer Klavan in The Daily Wire:

For now, Facebook is still technically called Meta. But the “metaverse,” Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitious virtual reality project, is in shambles. Tech outlets reported last week that the company would be sunsetting Horizon Worlds, its VR social media platform. Then CTO Andrew Bosworth clarified that Horizon Worlds would rema…

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