The Greatest App of All Time Day 21: SwiftKey vs. Duolingo

The Greatest App of All Time Day 21: SwiftKey vs. Duolingo

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s tournament brought us our biggest upset to date with Venmo crushing Twitter’s dreams. RIP Twitter. Today, we have SwiftKey taking on DuoLingo. If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic …

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The Greatest App of All Time Day 9: SwiftKey vs. Telegram

The Greatest App of All Time Day 9: SwiftKey vs. Telegram

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s lineup was an extremely close race and Read It Later fans put up an admirable fight but with 52 percent of the vote, Twitter goes to the next round. Today, we have a contest between apps for people …

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Can the Vision Pro play VR games?

Can the Vision Pro play VR games?

A person wearing the Apple Vision Pro overlaid on a screenshot of Half-Life: Alyx. Apple/Valve The Apple Vision Pro is best described as a spatial computer, but it’s also a VR headset with great mixed-reality capabilities. That means that, yes, it should be capable of immersing you in some really fun VR games, and at …

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Tongue-tracking in VR has arrived

Tongue-tracking in VR has arrived

Meta A new face-tracking extension lets Meta Quest Pro users poke their tongues out at you in a wordless statement of their feelings or even blow a raspberry. How better to express a sweltering day or an exhausting workout? This could be the technology that revolutionizes VR in 2024. Am I being too tongue-in-cheek? Honestly, …

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