Meta virtual reality interrupted by financial reality as thousands lose their jobs Zuck's 'Year of Efficiency' starts with saving time not learning coworkers' names in case they're booted Personal Tech19 Apr 2023 | 22
Virtual reality telemetry means you can virtually kiss goodbye to privacy Exclusive Boffins find they can identify VR players just from head and hand movements Personal Tech18 Feb 2023 | 34
FTC backs down over Meta's acquisition of VR biz Within Meta said it plans to close deal soon Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 2
Microsoft’s mixed reality dream meets harsh reality of job cuts Updated Just so, so much enthusiasm for Second Life 2.0 right now Personal Tech24 Jan 2023 | 8
By 2026, total AR/VR goggle sales will trail a single quarter of current tablet shipments But will be bigger than gaming consoles, so maybe this metaverse thing has legs Personal Tech22 Dec 2022 | 26
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