The Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset has had something of a rough ride since its release. While the engineering involved is impressive, the $3,499 price tag in combination with some early adopter woes seems to have taken some of the shine off of a device that Apple CEO Tim Cook described as “the beginning […]
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Having already spent over $15,000 on building the ultimate VR gaming set-up, one streamer has decided that the level of haptic feedback it offered simply wasn’t immersive enough. Cue an additional vest that replicates health damage in the form of electric shocks to the skin, to make sword hits, magic blasts, and dragon fire really […]
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VR is sometimes dismissed as a fad, with some seemingly desperate to ring the death knell on virtual reality and its associated hardware at the earliest opportunity. While we’re not so convinced, the latest financial report from Meta shows staggering expenses in regards to its VR headset and augmented reality division that are difficult to […]
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Apple has reportedly slashed production volumes of the Vision Pro mixed reality headset by nearly half. So says analyst and leading Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo reckons the original plan was for up to 800,000 units of the headset in 2024. This has now been cut to 400,000 to 450,000. He also notes that Apple […]
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Ready yourselves for a special edition of the Meta Quest 3. The theme? Xbox. The point? It comes with Xbox controllers and Game Pass in the box. Meta has announced that it will be opening up the OS included with the Meta Quest 3 to other hardware manufacturers, including Lenovo and Asus. The latter is […]
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The operating system powering Meta’s Quest headsets is going to be released to third-party hardware makers. The newly-named Meta Horizon OS is built on the foundations laid for today’s most popular VR headsets, and includes new tools and frameworks for utilising features we’ve come to expect from Quest headsets into new, original designs. And if […]
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When the first Oculus Rift headset broke cover it brought with it the promise of affordable virtual reality in the home and it was going to be some brave new world of gaming… which inevitably hasn’t come to pass. So yeah, VR isn’t the pinnacle of PC gaming by any stretch of the imagination, but […]
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There’s always going to be something special about tech that makes me feel like I’m in the future. Sure, lightweight mice and ultra-thin monitors can be pretty mind blowing, but they don’t splatter my brains quite as far as some of the wilder gizmos out there. Like Xreal’s wearable Air 2 glasses and Beam device, […]
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