Virtual reality
Meta’s new devices show us what our future could look like
We try on the new smart glasses and Quest 3 VR headset, which are very small steps towards the metaverse.
- by Tim Biggs
Latest
Zuckerberg’s new world: Meta unveils AI agents, mixed reality headset and smart glasses
A range of AI people will soon be available to chat with across Meta’s platforms, and may one day join you at the dinner table.
- by Tim Biggs
As it happened: Quest 3, AI agents, smart glasses revealed at Meta Connect
At Meta’s annual developer conference in California, Mark Zuckerberg unveils a range of new products and developments.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
Social media
Is ‘goggle time’ the new ‘screen time’? Virtual reality brings great risks for our kids
Technology companies want to corner the market in virtual reality by engaging children, yet we have a limited understanding of how it affects child development.
- by Therese Keane
Analysis
Gadgets
Apple’s vision for mixed reality could make headsets mainstream
Apple’s impossibly high-end $5000 headset likely won’t be an instant hit, but neither was the iPhone nor the Apple Watch.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
Apple
Apple’s cautious step into a brave new world
Apple has launched a new “mixed reality” headset that could eventually be a platform for the long-awaited mass take-up of virtual and augmented reality technologies.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Apple launches Vision Pro headset
Apple launches a virtual reality headset, Vision Pro, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino.
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Gadgets
‘New era’: Apple dives into ‘spatial computing’ with extended reality headset
Apple has announced its first extended reality headset, alongside a stack of new computers and a first look at its latest iPhone software, at its annual developer conference in California.
- by Tim Biggs
Analysis
Gadgets
HTC’s latest VR has one foot in a future that doesn’t quite exist yet
The modular VIVE XR Elite is an impressively small set of goggles that can work untethered or connected to a PC, and may become a defacto rival to Apple’s headset.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
Innovation
It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to bury his dreams of the metaverse
The billions of dollars invested on the virtual world is increasingly looking like an example of corporate hubris.
- by Matthew Lynn
Analysis
Extra
Virtual-reality gadget with expected $4000-plus price tag has Apple insiders rattled
Apple proved its critics wrong with the Watch, but virtual reality could be a far tougher nut to crack.
- by Tim Biggs