Virtual Reality

Living through the first weeks of this decade has felt a bit like contracting the fluit was way too hot, full of uncertainty, and the possibility of imminent death seemed ever-looming. If there was ever a time for a binge-watching experience to distract from …

Now here’s a pair of VR glasses that don’t look like a toaster mounted on your face. Styled to resemble a wonderful pair of steampunk-style aviators, Panasonic has done for the VR headset industry what the Snap spectacles did for Google Glass (remember that?)…

The company's kooky camera glass will even help when taking photos.OnePlus's Concept One phone offers a cure for the common camera hump The OnePlus Concept One is beautiful, clad in the same papaya-hued leather McLaren uses in some of its supercars. It's pow…

“We can design everything inside the car differently if the driver becomes a passenger,” explained Immo Redeker, one of Audi’s interior designers, as the autonomous AI:Me concept carefully parked itself under an awning on the sidelines of CES 2020. The techn…

Toss a coin to your Witcher, won't you? For anyone who hasn't watched it yet, there's a catchy little tune in The Witcher, a popular new Netflix series based on the writings of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. Without getting into story specifics, the show f…

As the FCC and similar regulatory agencies around the world prepare to open up 6GHz radio spectrum for use in Wi-Fi networks, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced today that it has selected a new name to identify devices that support the technology: Wi-Fi 6E. The bra…

Toss A Coin To Your Witcher, the obnoxiously catchy song from Netflixs The Witcher series, is everywhere. Its in our heads. It has permeated Twitter. Its being remixed over and over again. Now, thanks to an enterprising player of hit virtual reality rhythm ga…

The Gin Craze Many thanks to Anthony Lane for confirming the historical and cultural pedigree of the gin-and-tonic, which I and many friends in British-ruled Hong Kong regarded as more or less the official colonial drink (Ginmania, December 9th). Its popular…

The world of startups may be running out of patience for heavily-hyped trends like cryptocurrency, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles, according to a new survey published this week. To findings were published by First Round, a venture capital firm that…

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook acquires Madrid-based cloud gaming startup PlayGiga Fa…