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

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Has Utterly Failed to Connect With Teens

By Victor Tangermann

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

Virtual Reality

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

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

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

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

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

Neal Stephenson, the science fiction icon who first coined and popularized the term "metaverse," is pausing his literary career to build his own.

Guy Who Invented the Word “Metaverse” Building His Own Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

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

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

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.

People Are Going on Dates in the Metaverse and It Sounds Very Strange

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Virtual Reality

Researchers Develop a VR Headset That’s Barely Thicker Than a Pair of Glasses

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.

Virtual Reality

This Therapeutic VR Experience is Just Like Tripping on Acid

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Miraculously, surgeons just successfully completed one of the most complicated conjoined twin separations ever recorded — with the help of virtual reality.

Prosthetics and Devices

Surgeons Use VR Headsets to Separate Conjoined Twins

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Robots Now Delivering VR Porn Headsets to the Terminally Lonely

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

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

Virtual Reality

Zuckerberg Shows Off VR Headsets Designed to Be “Indistinguishable From Reality”

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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Scientists Use Virtual Reality to Add Green Plants to Urban Hell

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

UAE Official Says Murder Should Be Illegal in the Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook emperor Mark Zuckerberg has teased the existence of his company Meta's latest mixed reality headset dubbed Project Cambria.

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off New AR Headset But Blurs It Out for Some Bizarre Reason

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like the Facebook Metaverse gambit may be showing more signs of implosion.

Facebook Reportedly Already Running Out of Money for Metaverse

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.

Virtual Reality

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

By Victor Tangermann

Grocery Chain Using “Cashiers” Paid $3/Hour to Video in From Nicaragua

Grocery Chain Using “Cashiers” Paid $3/Hour to Video in From Nicaragua

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.

Zuckerberg Dogpiled Over Plans to Monetize the Metaverse

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.

Startup Says Its Tech Can Inflict Actual Pain in the Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

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

VR Cops Brag About Planting Fake Evidence in Metaverse While Disguised as Underage Girls

By Tony Ho Tran

A sex startup is creating a VR-enabled masturbation pod for companies that want to make their employees very uncomfortable, very quickly.

Company Installs VR-Enabled Masturbation Pod for Employees

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.

Uh Oh: The Metaverse Is Already Being Slammed by Sales Tax

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Mark Zuckerberg Gives Galaxy-Brained Explanation of Metaverse’s Impending Singularity

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.

Turns Out It’s Really Easy for Kids to Visit Sex Clubs in the Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

Fans Say the Foo Fighters’ Metaverse Concert Was A Total Disaster

Fans Say the Foo Fighters’ Metaverse Concert Was A Total Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

Experts Alarmed by Sex, Nazism in Children’s Game Roblox

By Victor Tangermann

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.

Virtual Reality

Insurance Company Says VR Headsets Are Causing Spike in Smashed TVs

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.

Experts Warn of Child Predators in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

More people are getting injured using virtual reality headsets than ever before because, well, more people are buying them than ever before.

Prosthetics and Devices

Virtual Reality Users Keep Suffering Horrible Injuries

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Virtual Reality

Facebook Locks Down Patents for Full-Body VR Tracking

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.

Virtual Reality

Parents Alarmed by Children Slicing Off Enemies’ Limbs in VR

By Tony Ho Tran

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

Elon Musk Says the Metaverse Sucks and Neuralink Will Be Better

By Victor Tangermann

Nick Clegg, Meta's vice president for global affairs and communications, isn't impressed with the design of the company's Quest virtual reality headset.

Facebook Exec Laments the Company’s Bulky, “Wretched” VR Headset

By Victor Tangermann

Princeton Researchers Create Terrifying VR Simulation of Nuke Attack to Train US Officials

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Princeton Researchers Create Terrifying VR Simulation of Nuke Attack to Train US Officials

By Tony Ho Tran

A sneaker company known for photoshopping a "cybershoe" onto Elon Musk has been purchased by Nike because, apparently, nothing matters anymore.

Nike Buys NFT Company that Made the Elon Musk “Cybersneaker”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Before "The Matrix Resurrections" his theaters, fans can play a surprise open-world game called “The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience.”

Keanu Reeves Says He’d Be Cool With Fans Having Sex With Him in VR

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A company that provides human resources training to businesses has reportedly been using white actors to play Black characters in its VR training.

Company Under Fire for Using White Actors to Play Black Characters in VR Training

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.

Creator of “Second Life” Issues Warnings for Those Building Metaverses

By Tony Ho Tran

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.

Pokémon Go Creator Fears “Dystopian Nightmare” Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

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

AR Pioneer Warns That Metaverse Could Make “Reality Disappear”

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.

Facebook’s Top VR Expert Seems Pretty Annoyed by Metaverse Push

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."

Facebook Hardware Devs Reportedly Skeptical of Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

A 12-year-old girl developed a fear of Slenderman after watching a VR experience of the fictional character, exemplifying some of the dangers VR can pose.

12-Year-Old Develops Slenderman Phobia After Seeing Him in VR

By Dan Robitzski

VR Strip Clubs Have an Advantage: Dancers Can Accept Money for Sex

Virtual Reality

VR Strip Clubs Have an Advantage: Dancers Can Accept Money for Sex

By Tony Ho Tran

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Science & Energy

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

By Futurism Creative

This video demo of a Snapchat lens from augmented reality developer Kavin Kumar shows how it's able to turn a person's body into a spooky skeleton.

Watch Augmented Reality Turn a Dude Into a Straight-Up Skeleton

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.

Virtual Reality

Burning Man Is Completely in Virtual Reality This Year

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook recalled "About 4 million" Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets after thousands of reports of face hives and rashes emerged.

Facebook’s Oculus Gave Thousands of Customers Face Rashes and Hives

By Dan Robitzski

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

Virtual Reality

You Perceive Time Differently in Virtual Reality, Scientists Say

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.

Virtual Reality

Facebook Is Giving a VR Headset to Every Employee Who Wants One

By Dan Robitzski

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.

Virtual Reality

New Details Leak About Apple’s Virtual Reality Headset

By Victor Tangermann

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

Virtual Reality

British Soldiers Training for Combat in Virtual Reality

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.

Virtual Reality

Details Leak on Apple’s Upcoming VR Headset

By Victor Tangermann

Valve CEO Gabe Newell says his company is working on a brain-computer interface (BCI) headset that can make video games more immersive than ever.

Gaming CEO: Brain Interfaces Will Allow Us to Edit Our Feelings

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Dan Robitzski