Virtual reality & the metaverse
Vox’s coverage of virtual reality and the metaverse.
Apple’s mixed reality headset heralds a new era of “spatial computing.” We are not ready.
We know what the Vision Pro does, but we’re still wondering why you would buy it. Apple seems confused, too.
Apple’s new goggles aren’t for normals. Not yet, anyway. So why does Apple want to show them off?
The science fiction pioneer on making a template for Mark Zuckerberg, not making movies, and a worrisome climate change scenario.
Recode obtained a recording of a Mark Zuckerberg Q&A and internal survey results that show how Meta’s struggles are impacting staff.
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to work in the metaverse. It will cost you.
The tech CEO said getting it right will be “hard.”
“It sounds like some sort of science fiction.” But over time, it could become second nature.
This key part of his plan for the metaverse could analyze your voice, eye movements, and body language.
How artists are thinking about the future of virtual reality.
The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet.
Reality Labs is working on clothing that helps you feel things in the metaverse.
The social network is scaling back facial recognition, but similar technology could show up in the metaverse.
The company’s new name indicates that it wants to be the face of the metaverse.
VR doesn’t need to look hyper-realistic for our brains to believe it.
Companies are on a hiring spree for people who can code an alternative reality.
All 335 PBS stations use federal funding, but the ones that depend on it are largely in Trump country.
Powell Jobs founded the Emerson Collective, which owns Pop-Up Magazine and has a majority stake in the Atlantic.
That’s one of the questions Rhizome artistic director Michael Connor has to face as he and his team chronicle “net art.”
When Oculus founder Palmer Luckey worries about anything, that’s where his mind goes.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss Uber’s IPO, Apple CEO Tim Cook’s comments on privacy and more on the latest episode of Pivot.
It’s the end of an era!
Podcast producer Eric Johnson referees.
It costs $199.
“You should do impossible things in VR. You shouldn’t do things you would do otherwise.”
CEO Rony Abovitz shared some new tidbits at Code Media 2018.
Stanford’s Jeremy Bailenson says “there’s a reason people aren’t playing video games for 10 hours a day in VR.”
Stanford University’s Human Interaction Lab, led by Jeremy Bailenson, is finding out.
Spatialand joins Walmart’s tech incubator, Store No. 8.
Barra thinks “standalone” VR is the future. Now he has to help Facebook ship it.
Cheaper headsets are part of Facebook’s plan to bring virtual reality to the masses.
Oculus Go will ship “early next year.”
“I think retailers’ bad service is killing retailers,” Alber said.
“We’re at the very beginning of the journey to a fully realized version of VR.”
You, the viewer, are a character in the film.
Get ready, nerds!
Google VR boss Clay Bavor explains why the two technologies aren’t so different on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Facebook is adding more livestreaming to virtual reality.
You can view it on an ordinary screen or in a VR headset.
That’s not even really the point, if we listen to Google’s VP of virtual and augmented reality.