Sony’s new $550 headset offers best-in-class virtual reality gaming, but it’s still hard to see why we need V.R. goggles at all. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen, who has covered consumer technology for ...

“Vision Pro feels familiar, yet it’s entirely new.” That’s how Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, introduced the company’s new computer goggles at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The Vision ...

It’s unclear why the two companies have partnered up, but the scheme comes amid Apple’s push to dominate the “spatial computing” market. Magic Leap recently announced “a multi-faceted, strategic ...

The recent expansion of the metaverse has sparked innovators’ imaginations. This virtual 3D world is well known to gamers who don their VR goggles and play, totally immersed in the environment created ...

The original vision of the Metaverse spelled out a large-scale, fully interconnected, persistent virtual world. Sounds great until you have to build the whole thing out. PTC is exploring an ...

Like much of the world, Neal Stephenson doesn’t give a damn about Meta’s Metaverse. “My book will outlast Zuckerberg’s metaverse,” he tells me over video conference to talk about Lamina1, the company ...

Your customers need you to be where they are. Long gone are the days when that just meant a clerk assisted shoppers in a brick-and-mortar retail store, or an agent attentively listened to and resolved ...

As Meta pulls back investment, here’s what happened to some of the startups that went all-in on the metaverse.

Ah, the “metaverse.” Will a fantasy where our office meetings and social gatherings take place mostly in virtual reality ever come true? As a tech critic who has worn almost every pair of ...