Virtual Reality

VR still stinks, and its stench has many notes. It reeks of rich white guys, who wildly overfund and consistently overhype the always-on-the-verge-of-a-breakthrough technology. It has a festering funk of entrenched privilege, despite its purveyors’ claims that it fosters empathy and inclusion. It’s too expensive and only getting more so.…

A new documentary on HBO Max examines the coming age of social interaction — not in the “real” world, but in the virtual one. For months, I’ve been sharing posts on the ReidOut Blog about the “metaverse,” a virtual world accessible through some kind of wearable device, like glasses. My…

Today’s virtual reality (VR) headsets are undeniably cool, but the experience they offer is still more virtual than real. However, the tech is improving rapidly: This June, Mark Zuckerberg gave the world a sneak preview of prototypes for four virtual reality headsets, a teaser that left gamers salivating. Of course…

And it's expected to keep losing more. Meta has released its quarterly financial results, giving insight into its recent decision to increase the price of its Meta Quest 2 headset. Reality Labs, the division of Meta which works on its virtual reality and metaverse products, posted a net $2.8bn loss…

Your browser does not support the audio element. On July 26, Pico, an affiliated company of ByteDance, was granted a patent named “Eye Tracking Method and System Based on Virtual Reality”, and its application date was March 30, 2021. The patent summary shows that the method first presents eyeball calibration…

The company, the first Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS)-accredited fleet operator in the utilities sector, will now require all its drivers to attend a Work Related Road Risk (WRRR) course, organised by driver-training specialist Fleet Source, at its dedicated training suite in East London. During the course, trainees don VR…

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 28 July 2022 - Lockdown VR: Circus of the Dead is the latest virtual reality escape game designed and released by Lockdown Escape . The game has been launched in over 30 VR arcades located in the United States, Canada, and Europe. It is only…

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is betting its future on the metaverse, and specifically around the augmented and virtual reality sector known as Reality Labs. That sector, however, reported a $2.8 billion loss as the company saw lower than expected profit and its first revenue decline since going public…

The Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust suit against Meta in a bid to block it from buying Within Unlimited, the maker of the virtual reality workout app Supernatural. The agency accused the company and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg of "planning to expand Meta’s virtual reality empire with this…

Plus: As Dusk Falls impresses! Valheim a few years on! And more. Well look who we've got on Weekly today: it's Ian Higton all the way over from YouTube land, where everyone communicates in video. He's here to talk about virtual reality as often as he can, as well as…