Hands-on with Boba 3, Meta's prototype PC VR headset with a form factor similar to the Quest 3, featuring an ultrawide field of view of 180° by 120°
honestly my Vision Pro when close to my eyes feels about on par. Tiramisu was only a 30 degree FOV but felt like more of a peek into the future. David Heaney / @heaney555 : Here's...
Hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's “hyperrealistic” VR research prototype with beyond-retinal resolution, high brightness and contrast, and a narrow field of view
At SIGGRAPH 2025, I went hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's research prototype that combines beyond-retinal resolution … X: @ibrews and @heaney555 X: @ibrews : The @Meta Tiramisu heads...
Meta's Horizon Store now supports 2D PWAs apps, native Android apps, and apps built via the new Meta Spatial SDK, which lets developers use Android dev tools
people crave for content and immersive content can't be 100% of it. So happy to see prime video launch on quest. Kent Bye / @kentbye : Meta has “cured curation” meaning that they'v...
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B
Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to journalists after his meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 17, 2024.
Tim Cook says half of Fortune 100 companies have purchased Apple Vision Pro units and that Apple's focus is on getting more apps and more enterprises engaged
Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider :
Meta rolls out its Quest v55 update, boosting the Quest 2's maximum GPU clock speed up to 19% and the Quest Pro's up to 11%, and the CPUs for both up to 26%
David Heaney / UploadVR :
Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta's Quests, aren't good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability
Apple Vision Pro Vlad Savov / Bloomberg : Apple's Growth Vision Is Getting Hard for Some to See Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely : Apple's Vision Pro headset is a hobby. Why won't ...
Meta plans to increase the prices of its Quest 2 headsets to $400 for 128GB and $500 for 256GB on August 1, and bundle Beat Saber for free through December 31
The price for a new Quest 2 is jumping to $399 as Meta says “the costs to make and ship our products have been on the rise.”
Mark Zuckerberg demos prototype VR headsets from Reality Labs, none of which will ship, that Meta refers to as “time machines” used to test one specific feature
here's your first look Mashable : Meta has a sweet vision for VR, but it's a long way from reality for the rest of us Michael Kan / PCMag : Zuckerberg: These Prototypes Will Help U...
Facebook announces Project Nazare, the codename for its first consumer AR glasses, and showed a demo video while acknowledging Nazare is still “a few years out”
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The Facebook View app on iOS contains an image of a potential Meta smartwatch, with a front-facing camera notch, rounded screen, and a detachable wrist strap
- Device has front-facing camera, possibly for videoconferencing — Image of watch is found inside of Facebook View iPhone app
Facebook announces the Passthrough API, which allows Oculus Quest 2 developers to use real-world images collected via sensors to create mixed reality apps
Developers will get the experimental feature with Oculus' next SDK — Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video …
Oculus' latest update for its Quest headsets adds a Live Overlay casting feature that allows mixed reality capture with just an iPhone model XS or newer
v29 is packed with features — Oculus will soon roll out its v29 software for Quest and Quest 2 headsets, and this one adds more features and functionality to the lineup.
Valve ends SteamVR support for macOS, three years after Apple announced it at WWDC; Valve's survey found only 4% of Steam users were using macOS
Valve just ended SteamVR's support for macOS. ‘Legacy builds’ will continue to be available. — SteamVR is Valve's PC-based virtual reality platform, supporting Windows and Linux...
Sources: over 300 Chinese companies, including Xiaomi, Megvii, and Didi Chuxing, are seeking bank loans totaling $8.2B to soften coronavirus' impact
BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 300 Chinese firms including Meituan Dianping (3690.HK), China's largest food delivery company …
MWC bans visitors from China's Hubei province and will require those who have been to China prove they were outside the country for 14 days before the event
A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns around the coronavirus.
A roundup of the coronavirus outbreak's impact on the tech sector, from closures of offices, stores, and factories in China to affecting MWC attendance
The outbreak shows that what impacts China impacts everything — The tech sector is currently feeling the impact of the coronavirus …
A roundup of the coronavirus outbreak's impact on the tech sector, from closures of offices, stores, and factories in China to affecting MWC attendance
The outbreak shows that what impacts China impacts everything — The tech sector is currently feeling the impact of the coronavirus …