Virtual Reality

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…

In this virtual world, you can dance in zaps of electricity, or in the clouds. You can mold your body to your liking, and watch as cats or Hatsune Miku pour you a drink at the bar. The social virtual reality game VRChat is defined by this freaky free rein,…

Along with bolstering production of the PlayStation 5, Sony is will bring another next-gen product to market: an upgraded virtual reality headset. PlayStation VR2 (PSVR 2) may not have a release date yet, but Sony clearly has big plans for it. At an investor briefing, the company revealed that there…

It's still unclear when the headset will release Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has officially revealed new details regarding its upcoming virtual reality (VR) headset. The company is tentatively calling the headset Project Cambria and is positioning it to focus on work-related use cases. During Meta’s latest earnings call, Zuckerberg touched…

Meta is investing serious cash into its metaverse and Reality Labs division with little return During its latest earnings call, Meta revealed that its Reality Labs division is losing close to $3 billion USD (roughly 3.8 billion CAD) each quarter. The division is in charge of producing the company’s virtual…