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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dream of creating virtual worlds continues to be a disaster. Over 100 workers were fired from its Reality Labs.

Remember Zuckerberg’s Cherished Metaverse? Now He’s Firing the People He Hired to Build It

By Victor Tangermann

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.

Virtual Reality

VR Startup Working on Tech to “Replay” Memories

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Last night, a bomb was detonated at Boston's Northeastern University — and a note left with the device named Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg-Hating Lunatic Sets Off Bomb at Northeastern University

By Noor Al-Sibai

Less than a year after Facebook rebranded for its "Metaverse," the head of Meta's virtual reality platform is leaving the company for greener pastures.

The Head of Facebook’s Beleaguered “Metaverse” VR Platform is Leaving the Company

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Virtual Reality

This Therapeutic VR Experience is Just Like Tripping on Acid

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.

Virtual Reality

VR Company Shows Off Full-Body Suit That Electrocutes You Everywhere

By Victor Tangermann

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

Virtual Reality

Rejoice! Scientists Say Amazing Technology Can Make You Feel VR Spiders Crawling on Your Mouth

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group modified a virtual reality headset to simulate haptics on the mouth and kissing in VR.

Scientists Invent Weird Device to Simulate Kissing in VR

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Japanese company is taking service robotics to a whole new level with their humanoid power line-fixing robot.

Japanese Railroad Builds Giant Gundam-Style Robot to Fix Power Lines

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Facebook whistleblower is back — and this time, she's implicating the Metaverse.

Facebook Whistleblower Warns That Zuckerberg Wants to Fill Your House With Microphones

By Noor Al-Sibai

The devs of QuestCraft released an unofficial VR port of Minecraft to the Meta Quest headset this week, along with detailed installation instructions.

Rejoice, Nerds! You Can Now Play Minecraft With a Quest VR Headset

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Meta aired a rather bizarre Super Bowl ad for its Quest 2 virtual reality headset, in which it compared its customers to a thrown away animatronic.

In Bizarre Super Bowl Ad, Facebook Imagines Its Users as Robot Dogs Stuffed into Trash Compactor

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.

Sexual Assault Is Already Happening in the Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

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This Totally Immersive ‘Virtual Intimacy System’ Blurs VR Sex and Reality

By Futurism Creative

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.

Virtual Reality

Burning Man Is Completely in Virtual Reality This Year

By Victor Tangermann