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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
The Meta Quest 3 can overlay digital images on our regular view of the world.

Zuckerberg’s new world: Meta unveils AI agents, mixed reality headset and smart glasses

A range of AI people will soon be available to chat with across Meta’s platforms, and may one day join you at the dinner table.

  • Tim Biggs
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Meta Quest 3

As it happened: Quest 3, AI agents, smart glasses revealed at Meta Connect

At Meta’s annual developer conference in California, Mark Zuckerberg unveils a range of new products and developments.

  • Tim Biggs
Neil Mitchell has declined to comment on industry chatter he would retire from journalism should he be moved along from his traditional 3AW slot.

Neil Mitchell will leave 3AW Mornings. Not all will be mourning

Listeners may shed a tear, but CBD suspects eyes will remain dry on Spring Street.

  • Sherryn Groch and Kishor Napier-Raman
The effects of virtual reality on children are still largely untested.

Is ‘goggle time’ the new ‘screen time’? Virtual reality brings great risks for our kids

Technology companies want to corner the market in virtual reality by engaging children, yet we have a limited understanding of how it affects child development.

  • Therese Keane
When a user is fully immersed, the outer screen on the Vision Pro obscures their eyes so you know they can’t see you.

Apple’s vision for mixed reality could make headsets mainstream

Apple’s impossibly high-end $5000 headset likely won’t be an instant hit, but neither was the iPhone nor the Apple Watch.

  • Tim Biggs

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