Hands-on: Meta Quest 3 is the Apple Vision Pro for the Rest of Us
I’ve tried them both, and the new Meta Quest 3 is no Apple Vision Pro. At least as far as presenting a hyper-realistic mixed reality experience that overlays virtual objects…
Meta May Ship Far Fewer Quest 3 Headsets than Quest 2
How’s that whole metaverse thing going? Well, according to one top analyst’s sales expectations for the Quest 3 mixed reality headset, not as well as Meta might hope. That, plus…
Meta Quest 3 Shows Us the Metaverse Dream isn’t Dead Yet
Watching the Meta Quest 3 being announced by Meta made me realize something – the hardware available for virtual, augmented and mixed reality is finally catching up with the big…
Meta’s Mixed Reality Quest 3 Has Arrived, Starting at $500
Meta’s been questing around for a new vision for its VR, and it’s finally arrived. At Meta’s 2023 Connect conference, the company introduced the Meta Quest 3, a mixed-reality VR…
You Call That a Metaverse? Meta Brings Horizon Worlds to Mobile and Desktop.
Photo: Kyodo (AP) After two years, Meta has opened its Horizon Worlds metaverse video game up to users on phones and web browsers. The company announced Thursday that Horizon Worlds…
Roblox Dev Arrested at Game Event for Allegedly Having Concealed Firearm, Large-Capacity Magazine
An independent developer for the kids-focused build-your-own game “metaverse” Roblox was booked into jail Sunday after he allegedly fought police outside the company’s community developer conference. Cops said they later…
Legs Have Finally Come to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse
Meta, the benevolent maker of Facebook, is solving the most important problem in the tech industry, one that every person on the internet definitely knows and cares about. At long…
Apple’s Vision Pro Head Strap Problem
When I got a chance to try out Apple’s Vision Pro headset several weeks ago, there was one big difference between what I wore and the display models shown off…
Meta’s New Subscription Service Comes With Two Quest Games Each Month, But You Don’t Get to Pick Them
Even with a $3,500 price tag for the Vision Pro headset, Meta now still has to consider Apple one of its competitors in the VR space, so today the company…
Meta Avatar Upgrade Could Use an Upgrade
It’s been about 20 years since the life-simulator game, Second Life, came out. Nintendo Miis first emerged on the scene more than a decade and a half ago. We live…