Virtual reality & the metaverse
Vox’s coverage of virtual reality and the metaverse.
And you don’t even need a VR headset.
Dual cameras could pave the way for a move into virtual reality.
Today’s tools will not be adequate for a fully immersive, high-definition VR future.
Jaunt has raised more than $100 million from Disney, Sky and other media backers.
An IRL chat with “Baywatch” director Seth Gordon. (Yes, “Baywatch” is going to be a movie.)
It’s the latest in a string of acquisitions for the chip giant.
Facebook needs everyone to create VR content — not just Hollywood.
Some of the most interesting apps for the HTC Vive right now impress because they feel real.
Oculus paid for the film, which Felix and Paul Studios produced.
Almost half of VR developers are building content for HTC.
Spoiler: The bunny dies in one tested ending. And in VR, that triggered much stronger feelings than it would have done in a regular movie.
Plus: What it’s like working for Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
The chip giant hopes that VR, connected cars and other devices will play to its strengths.
Bailenson’s lab examines whether virtual reality can change your real-world behavior.
Held across the street from Disneyland, the trade show is the holy grail of computer graphics and, increasingly, for mobile graphics, virtual reality and augmented reality.
The blueprints are now available online.
Although the suprise-hit game has thrown a curve at the tech-adoption formula, it still looks like a good five to 10 years before AR might hit the mass market.
It might make you more empathetic — or a better football quarterback.
A tiny startup backed by CNET founder Halsey Minor is the latest to get into the act.
Another sign that Google is putting its eggs into mobile VR.
They’re pretty big and important.
I don’t believe virtual reality is a good area to venture invest. I do believe augmented reality is a good place to venture invest.
“Can I be crass? Do you want to have sex or do you want to have a virtual reality experience of sex?”
Simply seeing a connected lock, doorbell camera or smart thermostat in a box on a shelf at your local Best Buy likely won’t do it, no matter how attractive the packaging.
Jesus Christ.
The Taiwanese electronics maker continues to look to areas outside its struggling phone business.
As a new medium, VR is in a peculiar predicament: Hailed as a multibillion-dollar industry, it’s also still in its creative infancy.
Audioshield is like Guitar Hero for your hands, and it’s making me want to own music again.
Normals will have to wait until later this year.
Vrse is now Within.
Shiraz Akmal and Brad Herman announced earlier this year they were setting up Spaces, a virtual-reality studio.
The storied photo service plans to equip every one of its Olympics photographers with a 360-degree camera.
Windows’ Holographic and Google’s Daydream represent early attempts to establish their platforms as key places for developers and content producers to create new AR/VR apps and media.
A series of subtle indicators hint that Apple is indeed taking VR seriously, and is laying the groundwork for a future product in the space.
It’s not just the technology that needs to grow up; it’s also the storytelling tools.
Virtual reality may be the closest to teleportation we will ever have in our lifetime.
Facebook wants more VR content. This acquisition might help.
IMAX and Chinese camera maker Yi Technology join GoPro.
Think Nexus, but for VR.