Meta's investment into its vision of a VR-connected future for social media remains colossal.

New reports suggest that prototype models of Apple's mixed reality headset are now in third-party developers' hands.

A sleep mask that tracks eye movement to help you better understand sleep patterns and quality is certainly unusual, and the prototype device in our photos shows it looks pretty mad too. That’s reason enough to talk about it, but the real reason Somalytics’ SomaSleep sleep mask is exciting is due to the amazing eye-tracking sensors hidden inside.

The Information claims to have once again received insider information from sources close to Apple who are familiar with the development of Apple’s XR headset. The report contains numerous technical details about the headset, including new information.

A farmer in Turkey is testing VR headsets on his cows to see if they would produce more milk when they're tricked into thinking they're on green fields.

Meta is betting big on virtual reality as an anchor technology for its metaverse, but VR isn't catching on yet within the mainstream.

A prominent video game creator who helped lead Facebook's expansion into virtual reality has resigned from the social networking service's corporate parent after becoming disillusioned with the way the technology is being managed. John Carmack cut his ties with Meta Platforms, a holding company created last year by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, in a Friday letter that vented his frustration as he steeped down as an executive consultant in virtual reality.

HTC will reveal a virtual reality and augmented reality headset at CES.

Avatars dancing to house music on a tropical island doesn’t draw a crowd.

The metaverse is predicted to be $5 trillion in value by 2030 as per leading analysts McKinsey & Co.’s new research. These figures show that the metaverse may be just too big to ignore. Experts agree that the metaverse will influence the business ecosystem and leave imprints on all sectors.

You’re better off buying three Quest 2s.

After spending about two weeks with it, here’s my takeaway: The Pro has an identity crisis. At $1,500, it’s far too expensive to be considered a consumer device for gaming. Unfortunately, most of the apps on the device haven’t been optimized for the new Pro, so it also doesn’t feel ready for professional use, either. Meta still needs VR developers who are looking to enhance the metaverse to buy the Pro and create more apps and use cases for the headset.

Palmer Luckey claims to have invented a VR headset that kills the wearer in real life, if they die in a virtual reality game. Ha ha. Cool...

Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears

Investors wiped more than $65 billion from Meta’s market capitalization on Wednesday after the Facebook owner reported another quarter of declining revenues and failed to convince investors that big bets on the metaverse and artificial intelligence were paying off.

Luis Eduardo Garrido couldn’t wait to test out his colleague’s newest creation. Garrido, a psychology and methodology researcher at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic, drove two hours between his university’s campuses to try a virtual reality experience that was designed to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder and different types of phobias.

Facebook owner Meta's Horizon Worlds is failing to meet internal performance expectations, a report says.

Plus: How Mark Zuckerberg fell in love with VR, the fake future of documentaries, and Armageddon.

"So, the greatest development of burning $10 billion of cash flow on this endeavor is legs?" the Mirabaud analyst Neil Campling asked.

In November 2021, Facebook announced it would delete face recognition data extracted from images of more than 1 billion people and stop offering to automatically tag people in photos and videos. Luke Stark, an assistant professor at Western University, in Canada, told WIRED at the time that he considered the policy change a PR tactic because the company’s VR push would likely lead to the expanded collection of physiological data and raise new privacy concerns.