Virtual Reality

Let’s face reality: VR is dead. At least for now. I’ve spent more time this year thinking about virtual reality than actually using it. That should tell you everything you need to know about VR’s state of play in 2025. Despite billions in investment from Meta, Apple, Sony and Samsung,…

Skip to content Image: Valve The Apple Vision Pro is an expensive flop. I haven’t heard anyone mention the Meta Quest in months, despite it getting a new model just last year. I can’t even remember the name of Samsung’s incoming Android-based headset. While virtual reality gamers remain passionate, the…

How the Valve Index successor is all about the games – especially the ones you already own Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun The Steam Frame, a new VR headset Valve just announced alongside a new Steam Machine and Steam Controller, is both a simpler and more complex virtual reality kit…

Virtual reality headsets may help astronauts get used to their otherworldly surroundings. (Image credit: Wade Sisler, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . When learning about the effects of spaceflight on…

Your mom was wrong: Sitting too close to the TV doesn't hurt your eyes. Credit: Stephen Johnson Table of Contents As Lifehacker’s smart glasses and virtual reality expert, I spend a lot of time flooding my eyes with bright light. Last night, I was testing a pair of soon-to-be released…

The Sharp Xrostella VR1 virtual reality glasses and controllers can be used with smartphones and PCs. (Image source: Sharp) Sharp Japan will launch a Green Funding campaign for the Xrostella VR1 virtual reality glasses in November 2025. At just 198 grams, the VR glasses are less than half the weight…

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Children try AR and VR devices at a science and technology hall in Jiaxing City, east China's Zhejiang Province, July 12, 2025. (Photo by Jin Peng/Xinhua) NANCHANG, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- By the end of 2024, China had more than 10,000 companies operating in the virtual reality (VR) sector, according…

Tron is a film and a franchise that has always looked far into the future while aging into its themes and ideas. Tron introduced groundbreaking visual effects to cinema in 1982, and Tron: Legacy repped the biggest and best effects of 2010; both films imagined a future with virtual reality and…

Manchester Evening News Icon Sport Gaming Money saving and offers 'An amazing bit of kit with plenty of games and apps in virtual reality' This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more With the Amazon Prime Day sale fully…