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As Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, barely anybody is booking demos for the Apple Vision Pro. Almost nobody is buying the device.

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Almost Nobody Is Buying Apple’s Super Expensive Vision Pro VR Headset

By Victor Tangermann

Apple's Vision Pro VR headset is giving some users literal black eyes, MarketWatch reports, thanks to an awkward fit.

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Another Apple VR Side Effect: Black Eyes

By Victor Tangermann

Meta's v63 update allows users of its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets to lay down while using their devices. VR porn enthusiasts, freak on.

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Meta’s VR Headsets Are Getting a Masturbation Mode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yes, software developer Jacob Wright wore his Vision Pro headset for a few wedding photos. No, he didn't wear it during the ceremony.

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We Talked to the Guy Who Wore a Vision Pro VR Headset at His Wedding

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People are getting headaches from wearing the Apple Vision Pro. One user believes using the device led to a burst blood vessel in his eye.

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Apple Vision Pro Users Reporting Headaches, Burst Blood Vessels

By Victor Tangermann

Some folks who cashed out the eye-watering $3,500 (before tax!) for Apple's Vision Pro headset are already showing some buyer's remorse.

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People Are Already Returning Their Apple Vision Pro Headsets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apple's new Vision Pro headset VR doesn't support "immersive" adult content — and the people who bought it for that are not happy.

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Apple Fans Horrified to Discover Vision Pro Can’t Play VR Porn

By Noor Al-Sibai

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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Gaze in Horror at This Guy Wearing a VR Headset While Driving

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Mark Zuckerberg Still Bleeding Money on Metaverse

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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Apple’s Ludicrously Expensive VR Headset’s Virtual Keyboard Is Apparently Useless

By Victor Tangermann

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

Zuckerberg Reportedly Got Furious at Wedding at Mention of His Dumb Metaverse Selfie

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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Scientists Create Comically Gigantic VR Goggles for Mice

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.

Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Is Bleeding Billions of Dollars, Documents Reveal

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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Keith Richards Says He’ll Probably Keep Touring After He’s Dead

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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VR Lets Hoarders Practice Throwing Away Their Cherished Garbage

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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DARPA Seeks to Protect Virtual Reality Against “Cognitive Attacks”

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Facebook Laying Off Metaverse Employees

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Wildly Improved Metaverse With Lifelike Avatars

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.

Zuckerberg Has Been Working on Metaverse Legs This Whole Time

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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Jack Dorsey Says VR Will Turn Us Into the Blob People From “WALL-E”

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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Apple Execs Seem Terrified of Being Photographed Wearing Dorky AR Headset

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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Apple Hoping People Will Wear Its Pricey VR Headset to Parties

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.

There’s an Interesting Theory About Why Zuckerberg Wasted Billions on the Metaverse

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.

Facebook’s Former Metaverse Czar Publicly Shreds the Company’s Mistakes

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.

Virtual Metaverse Real Estate Is Completely in the Toilet

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg Abandons Metaverse as Shiny New Toy Appears

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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Virtual Reality Has Utterly Failed to Connect With Teens

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.

The Metaverse Is Completely Falling Apart

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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VR Pioneer Warns That AI Could Drive Us All Insane

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.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Suddenly Weirdly Quiet About the Metaverse

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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VR Startup Working on Tech to “Replay” Memories

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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Chevron’s Jet Fuel Made From Plastic Very Likely to Cause Cancer, EPA Documents Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Metaverse CEO Says ChatGPT Is Speeding Up Timeline for Emulating Dead People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Facebook’s Metaverse Division Lost Nearly $14 Billion Dollars Last Year

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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Flirting With a VR Hottie Might Help People Avoid Cheating, Experiment Finds

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.

People Forced to “Go to Work” in the Metaverse Say It’s a Complete Nightmare

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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US Army Buying Microsoft AR After Soldiers Said They “Would Have Gotten Us Killed”

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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New AR Glasses Translate Conversations in Real Time

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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Apple VR Headset Will Apparently Have Display Facing Outward to Show the User’s Facial Expressions

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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Neuralink Cofounder Says New Company’s Eye Implant Could Be “Ultimate” VR Tech

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.

John Carmack Quits Job Building Metaverse, Blasts Facebook

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.

Man Alarmed to Become Only Guest at $400,000 Metaverse Party

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.

Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Explain Why the Metaverse Is Great, Gets Attack of the Hiccups Instead

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.

The Fyre Fest Guy Is Off House Arrest and of Course His New Scheme Involves the Metaverse and Crypto

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.

Ozzy Osbourne “Performed” in the Metaverse and It Was Comically Horrible

By Frank Landymore

Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game

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Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game

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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Sign Language in Virtual Reality Actually Looks Kinda Awesome

By Victor Tangermann

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

Mark Zuckerberg “Pretty Confident” About Metaverse After Stock Craters

By Victor Tangermann

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

Founder of VR Company That Facebook Bought Roasts Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

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.

Facebook Investor Warns Zuckerberg That Metaverse Investments Are “Terrifying”

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.

Shockingly, This NFT Metaverse Casino Is Already in Big Trouble

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.

Leak: Most Facebook Metaverse Users Have Quit in a Month

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Say It Ain’t So! Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Legs Were Apparently Staged

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg’s New and Improved Metaverse Avatar Still Looks Like Crap

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.

Top Facebook Consultant Admits That the Metaverse Is Absolutely Terrible

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.

Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Maybe Has Legs Now, but Apparently Only for Executives

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.

$1.2 Billion Metaverse Horrified by Report It Only Had 38 Active Users

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.

Facebook Exec Says Metaverse Will Let you Betray Your Friends in VR

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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Meta’s Uber-Expensive New VR Headset Is Dead on Arrival

By Victor Tangermann

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

Facebook Employees Seem Completely Confused by the Metaverse

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.

Facebook Leak: Metaverse So Glitchy Not Even Employees Use It

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.

CEO of Apple Appears to Casually Diss Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

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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Now You Can Kill KKK Klansmen in Virtual Reality

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.

This $7.7 Million Miami Mansion Comes With a Metaverse “Twin”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré