Virtual Reality

Carmack quits Meta, brands it inefficient and unprepared for competition

Is Zuck's org doomed, or is this a case of a techie struggling with management?

Personal Tech19 Dec 2022 | 22

Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset

The metaverse is shaping up to be such an inviting place

Offbeat09 Nov 2022 | 32

'Odor simulation' included in China's national VR plan

Beijing nose best, wants VR to work in sport, tourism. industrial sims, at 8K with 60fps

Software02 Nov 2022 | 14

It's 2023, let's check in with the metaverse... Nope, still doesn't exist

You might catch a whiff of it in Slack or Teams next year, but otherwise normal human life goes on

Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 71

The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

Comment Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears

Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 92

Microsoft and Meta promise facehugger PCs piping cloud desktops into VR headsets

Poll Who exactly asked for this? Can you explain how it works? Or why?

Personal Tech12 Oct 2022 | 39

Anti-Metaverse package 'explosion' at college VR lab probed by investigators

Blast, manifesto railing against Zuck and AI may be an artifical reality

Bootnotes14 Sep 2022 | 21

Meta's next-gen Oculus headset kit left in a hotel room

Video Nothing to see here, unless it's Second Life Version 2 you're after

Personal Tech12 Sep 2022 | 17

Meta hedges bets on metaverse silicon with Qualcomm VR deal

More silicon sales for us says Qualcomm

Personal Tech02 Sep 2022 | 5

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

Opinion No country for old menus

Columnists22 Aug 2022 | 104

Surprise! The metaverse is going to suck for privacy

Forget mobile apps – headsets and smart glasses will be able to harvest so much data

Personal Tech29 Jul 2022 | 58

Now another Meta acquisition in jeopardy: VR biz Within

And on the same day revenue declined, web ad spend uncertain, hiring slowed, more AI curation promised

AI + ML28 Jul 2022 | 14

After 40 years in tech, I see every innovation contains its dark opposite

Column From modems to the Metaverse, Mark Pesce has seen it all

Software20 Jul 2022 | 138

Teslasuit demo: Taking a crack at force feedback with the 'Glove'

A virtual world at your fingertips with the idea that you feel something gripping your hand

Personal Tech24 Jun 2022 | 9

A miserable work week spent toiling inside 'the metaverse'

Nausea, eye strain, inability to take notes, migraines are just a few of Metaverse work 'perks'

Offbeat22 Jun 2022 | 68

Metaverse progress update: Some VR headset prototypes nowhere near shipping

But when it does work, bet you'll fall over yourselves to blow ten large on designer clobber for your avy

Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 24

Microsoft confirms HoloLens boss Alex Kipman to be reorganized out the door

Mixed Reality to cold reality

Personal Tech08 Jun 2022 | 9

Reg hack attends holographic WebEx meeting, blows away Zoom fatigue

Far from the finished product and not obviously a game-changer, but intriguing nonetheless

Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 27

Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses

DingTalk goes into 'extended reality'

Personal Tech06 May 2022 | 5

US Army may be about to 'waste' up to $22b on Microsoft HoloLens

Updated Will soldiers actually use these goggles? Asking for a watchdog

Bootnotes26 Apr 2022 | 81

Meta strikes blow against 30% 'App Store tax' by charging 47.5% Metaverse toll

Fees for sellers of virtual goods in Horizon Worlds will be almost half of sale price

Personal Tech13 Apr 2022 | 46

Insurance claims up 31% thanks to the metaverse

I'm gaming like a wrecking ball

Bootnotes14 Feb 2022 | 20

This is going well: Meta adds anti-grope buffer zone around metaverse VR avatars

Removing characters' hands evidently not enough to halt harassment

Personal Tech05 Feb 2022 | 123

Facebook posts job ad for 10,000 'high-skilled' roles to 'build the metaverse' – and they'll all be based in the EU

Announcement uses the phrase 'world-leading' without referring to UK once

Bootnotes18 Oct 2021 | 47

US Army slows ~$20bn project to put Microsoft's HoloLens VR headsets into the field

Deployment of 120,000 headsets hoped to 'increase lethality' pushed into 2022

Personal Tech15 Oct 2021 | 19

Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair

Opinion Only one company can make VR so bad it makes MS Teams look good – Facebook

Columnists23 Aug 2021 | 42

Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious

Yes, it involves VR. Meanwhile, in the real world, the FTC would like a chat about competition

Applications19 Aug 2021 | 62

South Korea’s top telco launches 'metaverse'

SK Telecom's ‘Ifland’ offers 66 facial expressions, 800 fashion items, plans to offer more serious collaboration real soon now

Software14 Jul 2021 | 4

GO on then: Facebook's Oculus to axe its entry-level VR headset

Updated 3DoF bad, 6DoF good

Personal Tech24 Jun 2020 | 1

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

'Keeping all of the best elements from the G1'... and none of the bad, please

Science29 May 2020 | 8

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

'Natural step' to find new leader after current one burned billions for no appreciable return

Science29 May 2020 | 20

If bigger seats and nicer nosh in British Airways' First Class still aren't enough, would sir like to wear some VR goggles?

Now you need only briefly see the cabin interior

Science15 Aug 2019 | 22

The ISS Experience: Not visiting any time soon? Through a VR glass darkly may be next best thing

Space doc brings sights and sounds of life in orbit straight to your face

Science09 Jul 2019 | 5

We fought through the crowds to try Oculus's new VR goggles so you don't have to bother (and frankly, you shouldn't)

Hands-On Rift S adds some technology... but not enough

Personal Tech22 Mar 2019 | 61

Virtual reality saves wannabe prison officers from actually, you know, having to visit

All the sights, all the sounds, none of the smells

Science27 Sep 2018 | 9

Virtual reality meets commercial reality as headset sales plunge

But growth is imminent as businesses buy and build VRs, and consumer kit improves

Science20 Jun 2018 | 21

Turns out China loves VR. Wires and powerful hardware, less so.

Research shows desire for standalone headsets in the People's Republic

Personal Tech13 Jun 2018 | 8

Oculus Go: Capable kit, if the warnings don't put you off

Review Facebook's standalone VR headset at least has novelty value

Science15 May 2018 | 28

Reg man straps on Facebook's new VR goggles, feels sullied by the experience

First look $199 Oculus Go is affordable and looks OK, but not the unreal deal

Science02 May 2018 | 71

HTC Vive Pro virtually stripped. OK, we mean actually stripped. (It’s a VR headset, geddit?)

Somewhere, a Windows Mixed Reality user is weeping silently

Personal Tech12 Apr 2018 | 21

Mozilla rejects your reality and substitutes its own … browser for VR and AR goggles

Enter another dimension, not only of sight and sound but of mind …

Science04 Apr 2018 | 16

Magic Leap ships headsets at last, but you'll need a safe

Security theater or something more interesting?

Science30 Mar 2018 | 47

Guns, audio and eye-tracking: VR nearly ready for prime time

GDC The future is finally getting into gear

Personal Tech23 Mar 2018 | 19

Microsoft floats feelers for fake worlds

Haptic feedback controllers promise to put people in touch with virtual worlds

Science08 Mar 2018 | 7

Face, face, face! Apple, TrueDepth and a nose-driven iPhone X game

Selfie-satisfied to augment reality with their mugs

Science13 Feb 2018 | 20

We won't need to go outside if these haptic tricksters have their way

Simulating physical sensations is a growing frontier in VR tech

Science26 Jan 2018 | 17

Amount of pixels needed to make VR less crap may set your PC on fire

Wow, this is incredib- BLEEUUURGHGHGH

Science16 Jan 2018 | 117

Unreal, man: Amazon pitches new 3D VR kit at dev newbies

Streamed direct from the Amazon storage fishbowl, natch

Science27 Nov 2017 | 7

Mythbuster seeks cash for roller skates to wear in virtual reality

Jamie Hyneman wants a future in which gaming doesn't mean stumbling into furniture

Science08 Nov 2017 | 65

VMware open sources VR overlay for vSphere

VIDEOS vMotion becomes vThrowing in scenes resembling 1997's Unicenter TNG from CA

Virtualization02 Nov 2017 | 11

VR-bonkers Microsoft yanks plug out of Kinect

Motion-tracking bar production halted, gives way to headsets

OSes25 Oct 2017 | 23

Zuck shows Virtual Empathy by visiting storm-wrecked Puerto Rico in VR

Updated Social Network™ indulges in disaster pr0n in the week it has new VR kit landing

Science10 Oct 2017 | 25

Sure, HoloLens is cute, but Ford was making VR work before it was cool

Interview Elizabeth Baron found genuine use for virtual reality in the design process

Science18 Sep 2017 | 12

Please virtualize my reality before asking me to goggle at a fake one

VR's killer app is shared simulations of closed spaces, not immersive entertainment

Science10 Aug 2017 | 20

Meet VRfox: Mozilla's latest attempt at regaining browser share

v55 first desktop browser to support WebVR standard

Software08 Aug 2017 | 9

HP Inc reveals dockable, wearable VR workstation for the office

Backpack PC aimed at designers who move between metaphorical mice and VR

Personal Tech01 Aug 2017 | 17