Virtual Reality

iFixit tears Apple's Vision Pro to pieces

It isn't just the price that makes your eyes look so weird

Personal Tech05 Feb 2024 | 57

Apple's Vision Pro costs big bucks to buy and repair ... just don't mention the box design

Still, up to 180,000 units sold under pre-order and China gray market prepping locals

Bootnotes25 Jan 2024 | 7

Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim

Column It looks like a fine product, but it's the ecoystem that will determine success

Personal Tech24 Jan 2024 | 80

Tencent, Meta, alliance reportedly strains over differing VR visions

Asia In Brief PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets

Personal Tech22 Jan 2024 | 2

Microsoft's HoloLens goes galactic in $19.8M augmented reality adventure

US Space Force harnesses Azure cloudy computing for orbital training

Public Sector10 Jan 2024 | 3

Microsoft nixed Mixed Reality: This Windows VR didn't even make it to the ER

Stick WMR next to 3D TVs, Segways, and maybe soon generative AI

Personal Tech27 Dec 2023 | 18

Meta yanks VR headset's strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it

A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin - what could possibly go wrong?

Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 6

Meta Quest 3 is a virtual reality of repair insanity

Bravery and a bucket for the screws required to service latest idiot visor

Personal Tech16 Oct 2023 | 10

A $353M question: Did Meta muzzle a VR venture?

Quest for control as AEI alleges Meta's monopolistic missteps

Personal Tech12 Oct 2023 | 7

VR headsets to shift 30 million units a year by 2027, vastly behind wearables

The eyes don’t have it, but you're all ears

Personal Tech23 Sep 2023 | 32

China to Meta: Flattery needed to get you into our VR market

Beijing likes Zuck's old stuff better than his new stuff

Personal Tech06 Jul 2023 | 10

Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner

Clunky, costly, literally sickening data silos just aren't better than the real world

Software28 Jun 2023 | 119

Microsoft remembers it was going to bring Windows 11 to HoloLens

While Apple has Vision Pro, Redmond's taking vision slow?

OSes15 Jun 2023 | 6

What do we make of the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro? It doesn't take a magic leap to guess

Register Kettle Tune in and hear us human-not-AI vultures get meta on the news

Personal Tech07 Jun 2023 | 7

Meta virtual reality interrupted by financial reality as thousands lose their jobs

Zuck's 'Year of Efficiency' starts with saving time not learning coworkers' names in case they're booted

Personal Tech19 Apr 2023 | 22

'Thousands' at Meta face layoffs this week

Sorry, you're Zucked

Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 26

Virtual reality telemetry means you can virtually kiss goodbye to privacy

Exclusive Boffins find they can identify VR players just from head and hand movements

Personal Tech18 Feb 2023 | 34

FTC backs down over Meta's acquisition of VR biz Within

Meta said it plans to close deal soon

Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 2

Microsoft’s mixed reality dream meets harsh reality of job cuts

Updated Just so, so much enthusiasm for Second Life 2.0 right now

Personal Tech24 Jan 2023 | 8

By 2026, total AR/VR goggle sales will trail a single quarter of current tablet shipments

But will be bigger than gaming consoles, so maybe this metaverse thing has legs

Personal Tech22 Dec 2022 | 26

Carmack quits Meta, brands it inefficient and unprepared for competition

Is Zuck's org doomed, or is this a case of a techie struggling with management?

Personal Tech19 Dec 2022 | 22

Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset

The metaverse is shaping up to be such an inviting place

Offbeat09 Nov 2022 | 32

'Odor simulation' included in China's national VR plan

Beijing nose best, wants VR to work in sport, tourism. industrial sims, at 8K with 60fps

Software02 Nov 2022 | 14

It's 2023, let's check in with the metaverse... Nope, still doesn't exist

You might catch a whiff of it in Slack or Teams next year, but otherwise normal human life goes on

Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 71

The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

Comment Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears

Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 92

Microsoft and Meta promise facehugger PCs piping cloud desktops into VR headsets

Poll Who exactly asked for this? Can you explain how it works? Or why?

Personal Tech12 Oct 2022 | 39

Anti-Metaverse package 'explosion' at college VR lab probed by investigators

Blast, manifesto railing against Zuck and AI may be an artifical reality

Bootnotes14 Sep 2022 | 21

Meta's next-gen Oculus headset kit left in a hotel room

Video Nothing to see here, unless it's Second Life Version 2 you're after

Personal Tech12 Sep 2022 | 17

Meta hedges bets on metaverse silicon with Qualcomm VR deal

More silicon sales for us says Qualcomm

Personal Tech02 Sep 2022 | 5

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

Opinion No country for old menus

Columnists22 Aug 2022 | 105

Surprise! The metaverse is going to suck for privacy

Forget mobile apps – headsets and smart glasses will be able to harvest so much data

Personal Tech29 Jul 2022 | 57

Now another Meta acquisition in jeopardy: VR biz Within

And on the same day revenue declined, web ad spend uncertain, hiring slowed, more AI curation promised

AI + ML28 Jul 2022 | 14

After 40 years in tech, I see every innovation contains its dark opposite

Column From modems to the Metaverse, Mark Pesce has seen it all

Software20 Jul 2022 | 138

Teslasuit demo: Taking a crack at force feedback with the 'Glove'

A virtual world at your fingertips with the idea that you feel something gripping your hand

Personal Tech24 Jun 2022 | 9

A miserable work week spent toiling inside 'the metaverse'

Nausea, eye strain, inability to take notes, migraines are just a few of Metaverse work 'perks'

Offbeat22 Jun 2022 | 68

Metaverse progress update: Some VR headset prototypes nowhere near shipping

But when it does work, bet you'll fall over yourselves to blow ten large on designer clobber for your avy

Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 24

Microsoft confirms HoloLens boss Alex Kipman to be reorganized out the door

Mixed Reality to cold reality

Personal Tech08 Jun 2022 | 9

Reg hack attends holographic WebEx meeting, blows away Zoom fatigue

Far from the finished product and not obviously a game-changer, but intriguing nonetheless

Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 27

Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses

DingTalk goes into 'extended reality'

Personal Tech06 May 2022 | 5

US Army may be about to 'waste' up to $22b on Microsoft HoloLens

Updated Will soldiers actually use these goggles? Asking for a watchdog

Bootnotes26 Apr 2022 | 81

Meta strikes blow against 30% 'App Store tax' by charging 47.5% Metaverse toll

Fees for sellers of virtual goods in Horizon Worlds will be almost half of sale price

Personal Tech13 Apr 2022 | 46

Insurance claims up 31% thanks to the metaverse

I'm gaming like a wrecking ball

Bootnotes14 Feb 2022 | 20

This is going well: Meta adds anti-grope buffer zone around metaverse VR avatars

Removing characters' hands evidently not enough to halt harassment

Personal Tech05 Feb 2022 | 123

Facebook posts job ad for 10,000 'high-skilled' roles to 'build the metaverse' – and they'll all be based in the EU

Announcement uses the phrase 'world-leading' without referring to UK once

Bootnotes18 Oct 2021 | 47

US Army slows ~$20bn project to put Microsoft's HoloLens VR headsets into the field

Deployment of 120,000 headsets hoped to 'increase lethality' pushed into 2022

Personal Tech15 Oct 2021 | 19

Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair

Opinion Only one company can make VR so bad it makes MS Teams look good – Facebook

Columnists23 Aug 2021 | 42

Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious

Yes, it involves VR. Meanwhile, in the real world, the FTC would like a chat about competition

Applications19 Aug 2021 | 62

South Korea’s top telco launches 'metaverse'

SK Telecom's ‘Ifland’ offers 66 facial expressions, 800 fashion items, plans to offer more serious collaboration real soon now

Software14 Jul 2021 | 4

GO on then: Facebook's Oculus to axe its entry-level VR headset

Updated 3DoF bad, 6DoF good

Personal Tech24 Jun 2020 | 1

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

'Keeping all of the best elements from the G1'... and none of the bad, please

Science29 May 2020 | 8

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

'Natural step' to find new leader after current one burned billions for no appreciable return

Science29 May 2020 | 20

If bigger seats and nicer nosh in British Airways' First Class still aren't enough, would sir like to wear some VR goggles?

Now you need only briefly see the cabin interior

Science15 Aug 2019 | 22

The ISS Experience: Not visiting any time soon? Through a VR glass darkly may be next best thing

Space doc brings sights and sounds of life in orbit straight to your face

Science09 Jul 2019 | 5

We fought through the crowds to try Oculus's new VR goggles so you don't have to bother (and frankly, you shouldn't)

Hands-On Rift S adds some technology... but not enough

Personal Tech22 Mar 2019 | 61

Virtual reality saves wannabe prison officers from actually, you know, having to visit

All the sights, all the sounds, none of the smells

Science27 Sep 2018 | 9

Virtual reality meets commercial reality as headset sales plunge

But growth is imminent as businesses buy and build VRs, and consumer kit improves

Science20 Jun 2018 | 21