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Immersing patients in virtual reality could help reduce the amount of local anesthetic needed for surgery, a new study has found. A team of researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston split 34 patients undergoing elective hand surgery into two equal-size groups. One group was given a VR…

Meta is rolling out the v44 software update for Quest headsets, and its big new feature is good news for anyone who likes sharing videos of themselves in virtual reality. There are new advanced camera settings that let you manually adjust how much stabilization is added and record 16:9 videos…

Home » Business » South Korea’s Ministry of Science rules out applying old gaming regulations on metaverse In a government briefing on Wednesday, South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) disclosed that it will issue fresh regulations for the metaverse instead of applying old laws. The ministry said the new rules…

If Half-Life: Alyx left you with an itch to revisit its seminal 2004 predecessor, now you can do so in virtual reality. On Friday, a group of fans known as the Source VR Mod Team released Half-Life 2: VR Mod. As long as you own the original, you can download…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 September 2022 / 2,855 Views Sony Interactive Entertainment senior vice president of platform experience Hideaki Nishino in the latest episode of the Official PlayStation Podcast announced PlayStation VR2 will not be backwards compatible with PlayStation VR games. "PlayStation VR games are not compatible with…

With PS VR2 set to arrive early next year, Sony is starting to accelerate the hype train for its next-gen virtual reality headset. The hardware made its public debut at the Tokyo Game Show this week (early impressions are largely positive) and the company revealed some more titles that are…

The Joys and Horrors of Virtual Reality in Anime by Kara Dennison September 16, 2022 We’ve talked in the past about the intersection of virtual reality and anime, and for good reason. VR—and related fields like AR and the concept of a metaverse—have long been mainstays of sci-fi and genre…

CIW / Technology / Consumer VR shipment in China up 166% in H1 2022 December 6, 2022 By CIW Team Most of the new VR products in China are standalone headsets, with many using Pancake lenses for the consumer market, which sees increasing shipments of VR products as the VR…

Around the same time Meta hiked up the price on its Quest 2 headsets, it also announced that it’s ending Quest 1 support for Population One, a popular battle-royale shooter set in virtual reality. BigBox VR, the Meta-owned developer behind the game, shared the update in a post on its…