virtual reality

While Apple’s strategy of biding its time before entering a product category has served the company well in the past, its official entry into mixed reality is coming at a curious time. Virtual reality and augmented reality have existed in…

Rumors that Apple will announce a virtual reality headset at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday have sent competitors into a frenzy. Meta announced its new Meta Quest 3 on Thursday. Lenovo released its latest ThinkReality VRX…

If you’re in the business of selling VR or mixed reality headsets, the time to announce your new product is … now. Especially if you’re Meta.This morning the company showed off the Meta Quest 3, which is 40 percent thinner than the previous…

I've spent a lot of time in VR. Some of it is impressive; some, not so much. But at this year’s SXSW in Austin, Texas, I got the chance to try a virtual experience called Body of Mine that opened my eyes to what this tech can really do. I…

Years before the term metaverse was popularized by Mark Zuckerberg’s rebranding of Facebook to Meta in late 2021, Matthew Ball published a series of essays on what the metaverse is all about—and what would be needed to turn the vision…

That ban helped set the path for the development of the Chinese metaverse, experts say, since it decoupled virtual spaces from digital assets. “The key difference between China and the rest of the world is it’d be heavily regulated in a…

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Instead, you are firmly grounded in a time and place. There are waves rippling around you, orange cones to indicate the boundaries of where you can go, and tiny little people on the island of La Kalma talking to you. Why are the people so…

My undrugged mind, to borrow a witticism from J. L. Austin, delivers to me a world of “medium-sized dry goods” and little else. My drugged mind delivers to me spirits or djinni or angels or I don’t know what to call them. It presents to me…

Mobile World Congress, 2023 has got a lot more than just smartphones. We get to see a lot of bleeding-edge mobile technologies including smart glasses. This year, there were smartglasses from brands like Xiaomi, Oppo and ZTE. Here…