Virtual Reality

The makers of “Reeducated” rendered the memories of former prisoners as sometimes harrowing 3-D animation. As readers of The New Yorker learned last month, roughly a million people have seen the inside of Xinjiang’s “reëducation centers,” a network of prison camps used by the Chinese government to control and propagandize…

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IMAGE: Selected scenes of the virtual reality avatar experience seen by participants. view more  Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Philadelphia, March 8, 2021 - Virtual reality avatar-based coaching shows promise to increase access to and extend the reach of nutrition education programs to children at risk for obesity, according…

Apple’s tinkering with AR, VR and MR.Photo: Mladen Antonov / AFP (Getty Images)While the rumblings over Apple’s planned venture into augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality have been getting louder recently, we now have a series of dates for these devices by prognosticator Ming Chi-Kuo, a good source with…

Image: vicky leta / mashable By Adam Rosenberg2021-03-07 21:50:45 UTC Apple's first step into virtual spaces might be a little more than a year away. A new research note from top Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts a "mid-2022" release for the company's first mixed reality headset. Its release will also…

The tech giant is also expected to launch AR glasses in 2025 Apple is reportedly planning to release an AR/VR headset in 2022, AR glasses in 2025 and AR contact lenses between 2030 and 2040. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a new note detailing Apple’s roadmap for its upcoming virtual…

Say bye to Google's cardboard VR headset Google has stopped selling its iconic cardboard virtual reality (VR) goggles after seven years. The cardboard headset launched all the way back in 2014 as a cheap way for people to test out simple VR experiences. It allowed anyone to get a glimpse…

Google has officially bid farewell to Cardboard, its cheap gateway into the world of mobile virtual reality. The goggles are no longer available on the company's online store, reports Android Police. The writing was already on the wall for Cardboard back in 2019, when Google announced it was shifting to…

The company is taking another swing at revitalizing VR. Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors I am very skeptical about Microsoft Mesh, the company’s new virtual-reality platform, and you should be, too. Microsoft's last attempt at virtual reality, the…

Microsoft’s Ignite conference is underway, and this year it held the event’s keynote address in Virtual Reality. Alex Kipman, the man behind Kinect and HoloLens, spent most of the keynote addressing the audience in hologram form and showing off Microsoft’s new Mixed Reality Mesh concept. What came next is something…