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A group of researchers may have developed a VR headset that actually resembles normal eyeglasses — and not, you know, heavy, oversized scuba goggles.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Isness-D — a therapeutic VR experience — reportedly works just as well as medium doses of LSD or psilocybin at bringing users to self-transcendence.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a cringey video shared by Facebook parent company Meta's VR department on Twitter, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hands look very strange.
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By Victor Tangermann

He dropped $18,000 on the Khorum Coast, a virtual property found in Entropia Universe, saying he hopes to see a return on his investment in just four years.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a recent review by TechRadar, a new full body VR suit with 90 electrodes sounds like a wild experience.
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By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with a new way to cause objects to levitate using sound waves alone, an impressive feat of mixed-reality technology.
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By Victor Tangermann

These might be major moves towards providing future users with a virtual reality system that human visual processes interpret as "real."
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Does virtual reality nature have the same positive health effects that IRL nature does? A new study used virtual reality to put plants in a city.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

A United Arab Emirates’ official warned that committing serious crimes including "murder" should be made illegal in the metaverse.
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By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's dream of the metaverse is as incoherent as ever, following an 8,000 word essay posted by Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta.
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By Victor Tangermann

It looks like the Facebook Metaverse gambit may be showing more signs of implosion. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have created a special device that can trick you into feeling like a spider is crawling across your mouth.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new report states Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with devloping Facebook's metaverse products and contents and is sowing internal chaos.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Facebook has announced plans to monetize its Metaverse — and creators are extremely irate at how large a cut the company intends to take.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A Japanese startup wants you to be able to feel pain inside the metaverse through a wristband that electrically stimulates its wearer's muscles.
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By Victor Tangermann

Heineken released a virtual beer in the metaverse and served edible gold and lobster, but one writer who attended wasn't impressed.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

In the video showcasing the concept, you can see the AR layer displaying your likely win percentage based on your hand in a game of Texas Hold ‘Em.
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By Tony Ho Tran

A group of users on the metaverse platform VRChat have created a police force to question, arrest, and occasionally frame other users for crimes.
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By Tony Ho Tran

A decades-old metaverse is introducing sales tax for the first time since its inception nearly 20 years ago, setting a precedent for taxation in the many burgeoning metaverses. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Mark Zuckerberg has a newsflash for us all: the Metaverse is less of a place than a point in time.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A researcher posing as a 13-year-old child was able to gain access to a virtual strip club via a metaverse app called VRChat.
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By Tony Ho Tran

Fans Say the Foo Fighters’ Metaverse Concert Was A Total Disaster
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Aviva, a UK-based insurance company, says that it has seen a 31 percent spike in home accident claims involving VR headsets in 2021, The Guardian reports. It’s also seen a 68 percent rise in such claims since 2016.
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By Tony Ho Tran

Child safety experts are sounding the alarm on the metaverse saying that it will attract sexual predators preying on kids using apps such as Horizon Worlds.
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By Tony Ho Tran

Renowned public speaker and NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway ripped Meta and Mark Zuckerberg in an interview after stock prices fell drastically.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

More people are getting injured using virtual reality headsets than ever before because, well, more people are buying them than ever before. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A clip uploaded by NFT enthusiast and blockchain CTO Alex Moss purportedly shows a "live rave" taking place inside Meta's VR playground for adults.
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By Victor Tangermann

Some folks are worried Meta and Mark Zuckerberg might have ulterior motives in the Metaverse. Here's a roundup of excellent Metaverse memes.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Phil Libin, founder of note-taking app Evernote who grew up in the Soviet Union, says that Meta's Metaverse is like communist propaganda.
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By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's iteration of the metaverse is set to get a lot less glitchy — and have a lot more privacy concerns.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Some parents are growing concerned of the impact of VR gaming might have on their children as VR headsets become more and more popular.
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By Tony Ho Tran

One futurist believes that “a large proportion of people will be in the metaverse in some way” and will live most of their lives "jacked in" by 2030
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By Tony Ho Tran

A farmer in Turkey has purchased special VR headsets for his cows so they'll produce more milk and be less anxious. It seems to be working.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Meta announced a slate of big name virtual reality concerts set to take place entirely in the metaverse last month — and nobody seemed to notice.
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By Tony Ho Tran

Another Oculus Quest 2 user had an intense allergic reaction to the VR headset's facial foam interface over the holiday, resulting in a hospital trip after Christmas for 13-year-old Lewis Gray.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

In an interview with conservative Christian satire website The Babylon Bee, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a stab at the concept of the Metaverse.
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By Victor Tangermann

Meta's virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds has barely made it out to the public and beta testers are already being sexually harassed.
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By Victor Tangermann

Princeton Researchers Create Terrifying VR Simulation of Nuke Attack to Train US Officials
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By Tony Ho Tran

Philip Rosedale, the founder of the virtual world “Second Life,” who recently spoke to Time about his insights on building metaverses.
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By Tony Ho Tran

Somebody paid roughly $650,000 in ethereum for an NFT yacht sold by developer Republic Realm in the metaverse platform The Sandbox.
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By Tony Ho Tran

The "land" purchased is located in Decentraland's Fashion Street district and paid 618,000 MANA, an Ethereum-based token used as currency in Decentraland.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

A handy guide to talking about the metaverse with your friends, parents, and weird cousins this Thanksgiving at the table.
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By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook Shows Off Gloves That Allow You to “Feel” VR Objects
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By Victor Tangermann

The CEO behind "Pokemon Go" believes that the metaverse is going to be a dystopian nightmare — but wants to help people build a better version of it.
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By Tony Ho Tran

An innovator in early AR systems has a dire prediction: the metaverse could destroy reality as we know it.
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By Tony Ho Tran

A top VR developer at Facebook sounds like he's not entirely on board with the company's refocus on the metaverse -- and his remarks were interesting.
Metaverse

By Jon Christian

Facebook hardware insiders told The New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac that "this is going to take a long time, i.e. breakthroughs in physics, etc."
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By Victor Tangermann

Neural Network Is Frighteningly Good at Drawing Cthulhu
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By Tony Ho Tran

VR Strip Clubs Have an Advantage: Dancers Can Accept Money for Sex
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By Tony Ho Tran

Burning Man has moved entirely online for 2021 over COVID concerns, allowing festival goers to roam the the space from the comfort of their own home.
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By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, found that virtual reality can affect the way a player senses time.
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By Victor Tangermann

Facebook is starting to squeeze ads into the magical virtual reality environments enabled by its Oculus Quest VR headset.
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By Victor Tangermann

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during an internal Q&A that any employee who wants one could expense an Oculus Quest 2 to the company.
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By Dan Robitzski

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that the tech company's upcoming augmented reality glasses could become a surprisingly intrusive part of every day life.
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By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has been awarded a massive contract to supply the US Army with more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets, MSNBC reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

According to the latest rumors, Apple's virtual reality headset will incredibly light, weighing in at less than 150 grams, less than an iPhone 12.
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By Victor Tangermann

A creator on YouTube created a CGI version of himself using a powerful new app — and used it to prank his friends on a video call.
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By Tony Ho Tran

The US Army has developed a new pair of hi-tech goggles that allows infantry to see in the dark and even see around corners, as Popular Mechanics reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

The British military is running drills and combat exercises in virtual reality, using simulations that run on the Unreal Engine.
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By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report by The Information, Apple working on a $3,000 ultra-high-resolution virtual reality headset with eye and hand tracking.
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By Victor Tangermann

Living in “Third Person View” With VR and a Backpack-Mounted Camera
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By Dan Robitzski

In a world's first, a jet pilot flying inside a real aircraft just fought an artificial intelligence-powered virtual fighter jet in real time.
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By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists at Cornell University has created a stretchable fiber-optic sensor that could give robots and virtual reality a "human touch."
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By Victor Tangermann

Cosmetics company L'Oreal has announced a lineup of augmented reality filters they're branding as "virtual makeup."
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By Victor Tangermann