Virtual Reality

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…

The logo of Meta Platforms is seen in Davos, Switzerland, May 22, 2022. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comWASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), the parent of Facebook which is making a big play for virtual reality, has agreed to delay closing its deal for Within…

Virtual reality was supposed to be the next big thing back in 2016 when the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive launched. It was the tech whose time had finally arrived. Or so we thought. As it turned out, VR was still a little too expensive and perhaps too alienating…

LOS ANGELES, CA, Aug 5, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Internationally premiering at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, brought to you by the award-winning virtual reality production company Ferryman Collective and Screaming Color, their fourth VR production, Gumball Dreams is an Official Selection of the oldest festival in the…

It wasn’t all bad Good news stories from the past seven days Three-year-old twins who were joined at the head have been separated in a 27-hour operation. Bernardo and Arthur Lima had the surgery in Rio de Janeiro, but Brazilian surgeons were led by Great Ormond Street’s Noor ul Owase…

Astronomers have many tools for studying the cosmos: telescopes, satellites, interplanetary spacecraft, and more. The humble human eye is a critical part of this toolkit, too, as it can often spot patterns or aberrations that algorithms miss. And our vision’s scrutinizing power has been bolstered recently by virtual reality (VR)…

THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL This undated photo shows conjoined twins Bernardo (left) and Arthur posing for photos with their parents Adriely and Antonio Lima during the boys’ birthday celebration before their operation at the Instituto Estadual do Cerebro Paulo Niemeyer hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. RIO DE JANEIRO STATE…

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) recently announced its plans to open the world’s first physical-digital twin campuses in the metaverse. Called MetaHKUST, the mixed virtual reality classroom will enable students from different places to attend classes like they were in the same class. The metaverse campus…

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…