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A viral video shows a driver dangerously wearing an Apple Vision Pro headset while cruising hands-free in a full self-driving Tesla.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is still losing billions of dollars in his efforts to build out his virtual reality metaverse.
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By Victor Tangermann

Reviewers of the Apple Vision Pro VR headset have found that the baked-in virtual keyboard is so bad, it's downright unusable.
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By Victor Tangermann

The first rule of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse is, apparently, that you don't talk about the Metaverse.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers at Northwestern University have built a massive pair of virtual reality goggles for mice to study how their brains work.
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By Victor Tangermann

Two years into Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse pipe dream and there's not much to show for it, except for more than $25 billion in losses.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says he will probably keep touring as a hologram after he does finally pass on.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study from Stanford University shows that people with a hoarding problem can alleviate their issue by using virtual reality.
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By Sharon Adarlo

The DOD is looking for tech that will protect against "cognitive attacks" that could disable soldiers wearing virtual reality devices.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook owner Meta is laying off employees in its Reality Labs division, who were tasked with developing custom silicon.
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By Victor Tangermann

The Meta CEO demonstrated impressively true-to-life avatars in an interview conducted over the Metaverse using VR headsets.
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By Frank Landymore

Meta's much ridiculed avatars now have legs but they are only available in Horizon Home and can only be viewed in third person.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is worried we'll turn into the blobby people being carted around on hovering recliners, like in "WALL-E."
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By Victor Tangermann

Apple's Vision Pro was launched with great fanfare but Apple execs have not been pictured wearing the AR device. Maybe because it looks dorky.
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By Sharon Adarlo

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple suggested internally people would be wearing its upcoming mixed-reality headset to parties.
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By Victor Tangermann

Tech journalist John Herrman offered a simple explanation as to why Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg went all-in on the metaverse.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

John Carmack was a critic of Facebook's Metaverse even when he was still nominally tasked with building it — and now that he's out, he's pulling no punches. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Only a handful of users are actually trading virtual real estate on Decentraland, slices of land that are being sold inside the virtual world as NFTs.
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By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apparently all but abandoned dead-eyed, lifeless metaverse avatar as he focuses on Meta's AI shift.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Virtual reality technology has failed to capture the imagination or interest of American teens, according to a new survey by investment bank Piper Sandler.
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By Victor Tangermann

To what we presume is Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dismay, Microsoft and Disney have both begun to wind down metaverse efforts.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of VR technology and a vocal critic of Silicon Valley, sat down in an interview with The Guardian to air out his musings on AI.
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By Frank Landymore

Meta is laying off even more employees. In his announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was notably mum about his favorite pet project: the metaverse.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A VR startup wants to allow users to record and then "replay" their memories back in the locations where they happened — but some folks aren't with it.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The process to create Chevron's "biofuels" from plastic waste would be so toxic, it could quite literally cause cancer — and the EPA approved it knowingly.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's ChatGPT might be speeding up the process of getting a realistic, AI-powered digital avatar of your dead loved one to market.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook's Reality Labs metaverse division lost almost $14 billion dollars last year — so why has the stock price increased?
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Could flirting with a VR bartender help you combat IRL temptations? These researchers betted it could — and their study seems to back them up.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

According to the people actually already working — or attempting to work — in the Meta's Horizon Worlds metaverse, there are a lot of issues.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In response to some pretty serious complaints from grunts, the US Army is ordering a redesign of its super-expensive Microsoft mixed-reality headsets.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Famed budget TV maker TCL has unveiled its latest TCL's X2 AR glasses capable of translating conversations in real time, but they're a little... big.
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By Frank Landymore

A new report by The Information has shed light on Apple's hotly-anticipated mixed reality headset — and it sounds like a pretty quirky device.
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By Victor Tangermann

After leaving Neuralink in 2021, Max Hodak is back with a brain-computer interface startup of his own — and his plans are pretty next-level.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

John Carmack has quit his advisory position at Meta — and took to the social network to blast his now-ex-boss on his way out the door. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The European Union investing $400k into a 24-hour metaverse "beach party," only to attract a handful of guests — who all left within the first hour.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While trying to explain the pros of the metaverse, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared unable to stop hiccuping for some reason.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Billy McFarland, scammer of Fyre Fest fame, wants you to invest in a not-metaverse metaverse project — and we have to say, we're confused.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Metaverse world Decentraland hosted its version of the real life Ozzfest metal festival, and it was about as terrible as you'd expect to be.
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By Frank Landymore

Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Members of the deaf community are taking advantage of sophisticated hand tracking to use sign language in virtual reality.
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By Victor Tangermann

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is steadfast in his belief in the metaverse, despite stock cratering 20 percent.
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By Victor Tangermann

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey criticized Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's infamous doubling down on the metaverse.
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By Victor Tangermann

A powerful Meta-Formerly-Facebook investor has some advice to get his company's mojo back — but it's doubtful that Mark Zuckerberg wants to hear it.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Watch out for Slotie, a "metaverse casino" that was just issued an emergency cease-and-desist order by four different US states.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Internal Meta documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal revealed that most Horizon Worlds users don't return to the metaverse after a month of use.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's avatar's virtual legs may have been staged at this week's Connect conference, and only a "preview of what’s to come."
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By Victor Tangermann

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled his new avatar for the company's bespoke Metaverse — and it still looks like total crap.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta advisor John Carmack is "grumpy" about the current state of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse, as he explained at Facebook-turned-Meta's Connect 2022.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At Connect 2022, Facebook-turned-Meta Mark Zuckerberg and a fellow metaverse exec both appeared as their new, legged avatars. But only they had legs.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Metaverse project Decentraland, a sandbox environment that allows users to buy and sell virtual real estate, isn't exactly teeming with people.
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By Victor Tangermann

One revelation from Facebook-slash-Meta's Connect? Soon, the metaverse will be a space where we can betray those closest to us. Hell yeah.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta-formerly-Facebook has unveiled its Meta Quest Pro, the long-rumored follow-up to the company's Quest 2 virtual reality headset.
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By Victor Tangermann

Some Facebook execs have threatened to actively monitor Meta employee use of Horizon Worlds, which employees reportedly, uh, weren't using.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Zuckerberg's push to make Facebook's Horizon Worlds metaverse platform the next big thing isn't convincing even its own developers.
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By Frank Landymore

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse project has been universally panned as a bad joke. And now, Apple CEO Tim Cook says he's also not convinced.
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By Frank Landymore

Ever wanted to experience vengeance against bigots in virtual reality? Thanks to a new game mod, you can — in excruciating, grotesque detail.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

If you happen to have $7.77 million on hand, you can buy yourself a coveted slice of Alpha City land — by purchasing a real-world Miami Shores villa.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apparently, invested brands don't care that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse looks like garbage. Horizon Worlds is ugly and just fine!
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Eminem and Snoop Dogg took to the stage at this year's MTV Music Video Awards (MVAs) to perform their hit single "From the D 2 the LBC," a NFT-laden anthem.
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By Victor Tangermann

A haunting AR mask of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's cursed Horizon Worlds avatar now exists, and anyone with snapchat can try it on for size.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken criticisms to heart and is promising "major updates to Horizon and avatar graphics" while posting new selfies.
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By Victor Tangermann

Meet me in the metaverse. Virtual reality dating is here, and as The New York Times reports, it's growing — and frankly, it sounds, uh, super weird.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Zuckerberg's metaverse, seen in the viral screenshot of Meta's VR game Horizon Worlds, seems to lack any real vision at all — and that's concerning.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's no way to sugarcoat it. Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse — into which Meta has been pouring billions — bot unfathomably bad.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré