Virtual reality & the metaverse
Vox’s coverage of virtual reality and the metaverse.
The picture of what the secretive Google-backed company is working on is starting to come into focus.
The good, the bad and the nausea-inducing.
An “ocean of puppies”!
Only a handful of people will get their Vives by the end of this year.
VR isn’t just for sci-fi geeks, Insomniac says -- and handheld controllers for VR are a game-changer.
No, seriously.
The ILMxLab is a developmental playground for any and all kind of interactive or immersive experience, and you’d better believe they’re starting with “Star Wars.”
The company has been losing ground in phones for years, but has recently seen its sales fall even more sharply.
Expecting consumers to take personal responsibility? Yeah, good luck with that.
What’s your favorite thing about space? Mine is space.
In a VR headset, the company says, its 3-D videos feel like a private performance.
Matterport says home buyers will be more informed with the combination of a VR headset and “pop-up information.”
“Not everything can be built on the playa.” Some art, organizers say, has to be forged in virtual reality.
Several companies are building virtual worlds that live inside of VR. The dream: Disrupting everything about the real world.
“In a world that’s always fragmented and pseudo-connected, I look forward to that time alone.”
And the technology is said to be coming to our living rooms “this year.”
We might have figured out what Nintendo’s NX could be.
With its second Android-focused fund, DCM Ventures has the lucrative adult market in its sights.
In addition to showing off a new Accord with Android Auto and Car/Play, Honda opened the doors to some other research projects cooking at its Silicon Valley lab.
It’s the biggest new consumer hardware to emerge from Nokia since it sold its phone business to Microsoft.
Zombies are especially scary when all you have to defend yourself is a plastic gun.
“For a lot of people, this is the first they’ve heard of Google Cardboard.”
“We’ve been telling people, ‘Be a cockroach. Don’t die.’”
Crowdfunded startups are trying to preemptively corner the nascent consumer market for VR video.
As the rest of the world slowed down for the 4th of July holiday, tech news kept coming.
“People always say, ‘Where are you?’ and not, ‘What are you looking at?’”
“VR is a contact religion” -- but VR’s next sermon will take nine months to write.
Maybe at the high end of VR video, which Google seems to be avoiding (at least for now).
“Americans are the absolute worst at taking time off for themselves.” Can Oculus help?
VR, AR and other future-looking tech is still inconsistent compared to the devices we rely on today.
Oculus may have an official app hub for the Rift, but that won’t be users’ only option.
Why GoPro is not just a “device maker,” according to Nick Woodman, who showed off a new spherical camera at Code.
The true believers say virtual reality will change computing forever. But there’s still reason to be wary of the hype.
Re/coders took to the airwaves to discuss the latest tech news.