Virtual reality & the metaverse
Vox’s coverage of virtual reality and the metaverse.
The world shifted when YouTube and other online video platforms democratized video distribution and original content.
AR may be a more natural evolution of phones and tablets.
A demo game shows how its Kinect-like Structure Sensor can be used for virtual and augmented reality.
Leap Motion says yes, and has announced a new partnership with Razer to make its case.
It’s got $1.8 million to get started, but YouTube has plans of its own.
A mother’s love, a vest that adds new senses and a Nobel Peace Prize winner talking about the importance of anger.
A TED Talk and a Reddit AMA, canceled within a couple of days of each other. Interesting!
“Nothing is going horribly wrong. Everything is going horribly right.”
Plus Re/code’s revamped newsletter, the Game Developers Conference and more.
Could a virtual-reality headset made of cardboard bring this geeky technology mainstream? Katie tries Google Cardboard and finds out.
The HTC Vive provides a good view of what’s possible in the world of virtual reality.
“Head-mounted displays and interacting with the real world are actually really hard things to do well.”
Re/code talks with HTC America President Jason Mackenzie about the company’s new direction.
And most of them aren’t even out yet.
“I believe in a couple of minutes, not an hour in VR.”
In case you’re wondering, they won’t be creating VR porn.
Clearly, none of our user-generated VR content will be as exciting as Beyoncé‘s.
Microsoft’s HoloLens visor and Mars imagery make for an otherworldly experience.
Good news: In VR movies, you can look anywhere. Bad news: In VR movies, you can look anywhere... and miss the action.
“It has to be cool. To be cool, it can’t look like I’m wearing a pope hat.”
“The technologists and innovators have been doing this for years already. Now it’s time for the financiers to come in.”
“It’s going to take a lot of people experimenting with this technology to really figure it out.”
The hopes for VR movies are huge, but there are a few technical kinks to work out first.
“In this ever-changin’ world in which we’re living...” You said it, Paul.
The consumer version of the Gear VR won’t have the heat problems developers have previously encountered, Samsung claims.
Interest in mobile VR is heating up ... and so are the phones.
Samsung unveils 360-degree virtual reality camera at its developer conference.
PlayStation’s four-man skunkworks team tries to stay ahead of what gamers will want in the future.
The stealthy company is raising $542 million from Google, plus a chipmaker, a Hollywood studio and a Twitter founder.
Plus funding for tech in Russia, homework help and more.
Oculus Rift owners find an easy way to play Alien: Isolation in VR.
NASA has funded an effort to develop Oculus Rift content that offers astronauts a day at the beach.
This secretive but boastful company says its virtual reality tech is better than Oculus Rift -- and it’s raising some $500 million to prove it.
For starters: “This product should not be used by children under the age of 13.”
Team Re/code’s hits on TV and radio from last week.
A startup called 3D-4U lets fans watch through the Rift at the Jaguars’ stadium.
For the average user -- the Facebook user -- the conventional wisdom about VR may be wrong.
Oculus has a unique “ethos of hope,” Brett Leonard says.
“The reason this project was nice was the tight partnership with Samsung and that we were targeting one device.”
“This is still very, very early hardware and software, but it’s in a state that we’re ready to show you today.”