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Should Mark Zuckerberg be master of the metaverse?

Good riddance to Mark Zuckerberg’s $105 billion distraction

In 2021, the Facebook founder declared that we would all soon meet, shop and do business in a cartoon world called the Metaverse. Four years on, the world still doesn’t want to know.

  • Andrew Orlowski

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Apple’s Vision Pro is the company’s first major new product category since the Apple Watch.

Virtual reality had its chance. It blew it

I’ve spent more time this year thinking about virtual reality than actually using it. That should tell you everything you need to know about VR’s state of play in 2025.

  • David Swan
Isobel Knowles, left, and Van Sowerwine with props for their VR work The World Came Flooding In.

Imagine your house under water. This VR film takes us inside the flood

The World Came Flooding In brings three personal stories of climate calamity to life.

  • Simmone Howell
AI sites are being used to make child abuse material.

Police searched a man’s laptop for malware. What they found is becoming all too common

Law enforcement is facing a difficult challenge as AI opens up a new front in the battle to protect children.

  • Josefine Ganko
Never Have I Ever crackles with spiky repartee.

Set around a drinking game, this play pushes friendship to its limit

In a new play by Deborah Frances-White – host of The Guilty Feminist podcast – four friends find their relationships strained after a confronting evening.

  • Sonia Nair, Cameron Woodhead, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Andrew Fuhrmann, Jessica Nicholas and Will Cox
Apple Vision Pro.

Impressive but is it essential? The reality of Apple’s Vision for the future of work and play

Both an immersive digital media viewer and a device to transport you to other places, the Apple Vision Pro is an impressive debut that most people will likely skip.

  • Tim Biggs
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Apple CEO Tim Cook at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, last month.

How Apple chief Tim Cook wants you to use the new Vision Pro mixed-reality headset

Apple’s first new product in almost eight years is about to launch in Australia, and the tech giant’s boss wants users to try doing normal things, such as browsing the internet or emailing, to find out whether it’s for them.

  • Trevor Long
The Pimax Crystal is big, with a huge field of view and no pesky blurring in your peripheral vision, but it comes at a cost.

The best VR headsets for 2023

Is Meta’s latest Quest 3 the right headset for you, or are you better off with one of the other options?

  • Tim Biggs
The Meta Quest 3 is much smaller than the Quest 2, and is also more comfortable to use.

Meta’s latest headset offers the best mainstream VR yet

Being able to see the real world makes a huge difference, although most games don’t make full use of it yet.

  • Tim Biggs
Starting next year, Meta Quest users will be able to place “augments”, or digital items, in their real world homes.

Meta’s new devices show us what our future could look like

We try on the new smart glasses and Quest 3 VR headset, which are very small steps towards the metaverse.

  • Tim Biggs

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