Apple has announced its first extended reality headset,alongside a stack of new computers and a first look at its latest iPhone software,at its annual developer conference in California.
The modular VIVE XR Elite is an impressively small set of goggles that can work untethered or connected to a PC,and may become a defacto rival to Apple’s headset.
The billions of dollars invested on the virtual world is increasingly looking like an example of corporate hubris.
Apple proved its critics wrong with the Watch,but virtual reality could be a far tougher nut to crack.
Young rugby league players will have their cognitive function tested by virtual reality technology as the code grapples with how to protect their brains from long-term harm.
In a daunting cafe scene,a dubious-looking man in sunglasses gives our reporter the hairy eyeball before her credit card is declined. Welcome to the new world of therapy for mental health.
With 11,000 workers axed,the social media founder needs to forget his virtual world and live in the real one.
Facebook has been investing staggering sums in “the metaverse,” the virtual reality wonderland that Mark Zuckerberg says is the future of human connection. It’s burning billions on a party that nobody wants to attend.
William Gibson’s sci-fi novels have proven all but impossible to adapt on screen,but the eerily prescient The Peripheral is a masterful success.
I’ve watched most of The Peripheral,but I’m almost as lost as I was at the outset.
The return to live performance isn’t all it was cracked up to be. Is the future of performance part-digital,part-live?