Tinkerer builds VR headset with CRTs repurposed from Sony Watchman — makeshift VR rig isn’t the sharpest, but eliminates screen-door effect

A YouTuber has taken two old Sony Watchman devices, pulled out their 2.7-inch black-and-white CRT displays, and put them into a Google Cardboard contraption for the ages.

Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR
Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR

Meta, after laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs division, closing three VR studios, stopping new content for VR fitness app Supernatural, and discontinuing its metaverse for work, is announcing a major change for its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform. Instead of attempting to make the 3D social platform work for both VR and […]

YouTube is coming to the Apple Vision Pro
YouTube is coming to the Apple Vision Pro

The Apple Vision Pro is finally getting an official visionOS YouTube app on Thursday. With the visionOS YouTube app, you’ll be able to watch all videos available on YouTube, including standard videos, Shorts, 3D, 360, and VR180 videos, Apple spokesperson Corey Nord tells The Verge. The Vision Pro launched more than two years ago, but […]

Ukraine’s wartime VR therapy is scaling beyond trauma care
Ukraine’s wartime VR therapy is scaling beyond trauma care

When Russia’s invasion overwhelmed Ukraine’s mental-health system, clinicians faced a surge of trauma patients with no increase in staff or therapy time. That constraint — rising need without added ca…

The tragedy of Supernatural
The tragedy of Supernatural

When you picture a virtual reality headset user, you’re probably not picturing someone like Sherry Dickson. At 69, the snowy-haired, retired elementary school teacher hops into her Meta Quest headset five days a week, for roughly 60 to 90 minutes at a time. She’s not attending live concerts or watching immersive films. Dickson, a fitness […]

How Distance Technologies is giving armoured vehicle crews x-ray-like vision
How Distance Technologies is giving armoured vehicle crews x-ray-like vision

As defence shifts toward data-driven operations, digital terrain models, simulations, and sensor inputs are becoming central to how forces train, plan, and coordinate. Yet the interfaces used to acces…

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

Two months before it changed its name to “Meta,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally introduced us to his metaverse for work: Horizon Workrooms, envisioned as a virtual space for workers to collaborate. Today, the company announced it’s shutting that space down: “Meta has made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone app, effective February […]

Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning

Users of the VR fitness service are distraught that Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates. They’re also pissed at Meta.

Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts

Meta is laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs metaverse division, and the cuts include closing down some of its VR gaming studios. Twisted Pixel Games, the developer of Marvel’s Deadpool VR, Sanzaru Games, the developer of the Asgard’s Wrath franchise, and Armature Studio, which worked on the Resident Evil 4 VR port, […]

Meta plans to lay off hundreds of metaverse employees this week
Meta plans to lay off hundreds of metaverse employees this week

Meta’s Reality Labs team is expected to lose around 10 percent of its staff, with layoffs concentrated on the division’s metaverse employees, as reported by The New York Times. The layoffs are apparently a side effect of Meta’s AI ambitions, which are pulling focus away from its virtual reality division. According to the Times, Meta’s […]