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Meta's Virtual Reality App Ditching VR To Make A Roblox Clone - Kotaku
In 2021, Facebook became Meta and the company claimed its focus would be to “ bring the metaverse to life. ” It launched Horizon Worlds, a VR metaverse that people could explore and create worlds in. It looked bad and wasn't great…
Promising Virtual Reality Stocks To Research - February 19th
NVIDIA and Meta Deepen Their AI Alliance—and the Spending Numbers Are Enormous Meta Platforms, zSpace, and The Glimpse Group are the three Virtual Reality stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Virtual reality…
Thursday Packed With Human Research as Station's Orbit is Boosted
Relaxation, exercise, and biomedical studies were the key research objectives for the Expedition 74 crew on Thursday as NASA and its partners investigate ways to keep astronauts healthy on long-term missions. The International Space Station is also…
Humanoid home robots are on the market - but do we really want them?
Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world's first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home”. Standing 168 centimetres tall and weighing in at 30 kilograms, the…
Metaverse just went mobile first, leaving VR behind
Meta's latest developer update delivers a quiet but major shift in strategy: the company is moving its metaverse ambitions away from virtual reality and focusing almost entirely on mobile experiences. In its 2026 Horizon update, Meta confirmed it…
The History Of The View-Master
We are going to bet that as a kid, you had a View-Master. This toy has been around for decades and is, more or less, a handheld stereoscope. We never thought much about the device's invention until we saw a recent video from [View Master Travels…
A new job title emerging at Meta shows how AI is already changing tech career paths
Meta product managers are rebranding. Some are now calling themselves 'AI builders,' a signal that AI coding tools are changing who gets to build software inside the company. One of them, Jeremie Guedj, announced the change in a LinkedIn post last…
Meta could launch a smartwatch in 2026, years after killing its original plans
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is reviving its plan to release a smartwatch (codenamed “Malibu 2”), with a targeted launch later this year. According to a new report from The Information (vie Reuters), Meta's first smartwatch could feature…
Army National Guard Launches Disasterville: First Mixed-Reality Experience to Put Students on the Frontlines of Disaster Relief Missions
'Many young Americans are unaware of the wide-ranging skills of Army National Guard Soldiers and their critical role in disaster response,' says Staff Sgt. Adam Szabo, State Media Services Program & Marketing NCO with the National Guard Bureau's…
Virtual Boy for Switch 2 is a great way to revisit Nintendo's quirkiest hardware
Although destined to appeal to a small crowd of dedicated Nintendo enthusiasts, the Virtual Boy headset for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 is a welcome and authentic manner in which to rediscover this quirky take on 3D. I was barely a year old when…
5 best Prime Video movies to stream now before they leave in February 2026
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Chelsea star nears injury return as high-tech rehab method revealed
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Government update to new alcohol 'restriction' calls as DoH issues official statement
The question specifically regarded the marketing of alcoholic products (stock image) The Department of Health and Social Care has delivered a message on 'restrictions' relating to alcohol, in response to a recent parliamentary question. The query…
CBS Baltimore Launches New AR/VR Studio
BALTIMORE — CBS Stations has announced that it will launch its 10th cutting-edge Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) technology-driven studio at CBS Baltimore (WJZ-TV), on Monday, Feb. 23 at 12:00 PM, ET. The station group is…
Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk.
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. I was doomscrolling again. It was a fall evening in 2023, and I found myself sucked into a stream of posts about our collapsing…
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