Virtual Reality

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…

This morning, Facebook (now Meta) Founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a new revenue opportunity for the platform. An Avatar Store for Facebook, Instagram and Messenger will allow users to buy digital clothes to style your avatar. This is a pre-cursor to the bigger vision at Meta, where they’re hoping to create…

Not long after the Industrial Revolution kicked off in England, Romantic poet William Blake famously lamented a country lost beneath “dark satanic mills.” He’s not always wrong: Today’s cities might include the prefab slabs of Eastern Bloc micro-districts, the drab facades and decrepit lots that dot the US Rust Belt,…