Virtual Reality

Starting next week, Meta will add a more social-oriented home space to Quest 2. Horizon Home, which the company announced at Oculus Connect last year, will appear when users slip on the virtual reality headset. They can invite friends to come over and hang out, watch videos and play games…

Apple is reportedly teaming up with Hollywood directors to create video content for its upcoming augmented reality (AR) / virtual reality (VR) headset, according to a report from The New York Times. Sources familiar with the matter told the Times that Jon Favreau is just one of the directors involved…

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And is it even economically viable for Sony or Microsoft to make them? PlayStation 4 launched in November 2013 and just three years later, Sony followed it up with the release of both PlayStation 4 Pro and PlayStation VR - so what are the chances of history repeating itself for…

Jun 2nd 2022  (Updated Jun 14th 2022) | San Francisco “When i took this job in 2008, I hoped I would be in this role for five years,” wrote Sheryl Sandberg on her Facebook page on June 1st. With that the chief operating officer of Meta, the social network’s parent…

Integrating virtual reality into aged care centres — helping residents escape the four walls of their rooms and tick off bucket list items — has been described a "game-changer". With COVID isolating residents over the past two years, a trial program led by the QUT's Design Lab has been trialled in three aged care…

Gaming This week’s State of Play is promising plenty of news for PS5 and Virtual Reality fans, although Sony is keeping tightlipped for now. Gamers are expecting to find out about a flurry of next-gen projects, including some that will also be arriving on PlayStation 4. God of War Ragnarok…

Image: Courtesy of Re-Live “Welcome to the Re-Live service. In order to continue, think ‘Yes’!” Thus begins Re-Live, a sci-fi short about a man who uses virtual reality to revisit a key turning point in his past—and then is able to view what would’ve happened if he’d chosen a different path.…

When Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in the summer of 2021 that his company was changing its name to Meta and setting its course to become a metaverse, the term “metaverse” turned into a buzzword. Soon, Zuckerberg was joined by other tech giants like Microsoft, who also claimed…