To hear tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella talk about it, the metaverse is the future of the internet. Or it's a video game. Or maybe it's a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom?

After Facebook’s rebrand to Meta, a string of stories about a digital land rush began. Investors were buying up plots of land in cyberspace, sometimes for millions of dollars, seemingly convinced ...

As luxury seeks out NFTs, in-game worlds and 3D virtual real estate, opportunistic players are racing to get there first, betting on a similar first-come, first-served basis that plagued the early ...