Tracey Truly / Digital Trends While Meta’s Quest Pro is one of the best VR headsets available, it never reached its full potential as a laptop replacement for spatial computing. Meta hasn’t given up on making a work-centric solution, and rumors suggest a Meta Quest Pro 2 is still in development. Here’s what we know …
Alan Truly / Digital Trends The best place to watch 360-degree videos is in VR, and the Meta Quest 3 just got a big upgrade in quality that makes the experience even better after Google updated its YouTube VR app to support 8K resolution. 8K might sound excessive since even the best VR headsets, like …
is rolling out the latest update for and, as always, there are some handy features. From now on, whenever you’re livestreaming to the Meta Quest app, the broadcast will continue when you take the headset off. That should help avoid interruptions. There are some -specific upgrades too, including the ability to use an external mic …
Note: This article is based on the VIP+ special report “Apple Vision Pro + Entertainment,” available only to subscribers. Video entertainment consumption could be among the most compelling consumer use cases of Vision Pro. But it’s unclear whether consumers will accept VR or mixed reality (MR) headsets as an enjoyable form factor for watching 3D …
Note: This article is based on Variety Intelligence Platform’s special report “Vision Pro & Entertainment,” available only to subscribers. A majority of U.S. consumers aren’t immediately likely to buy a Vision Pro, Apple’s mixed reality headset released in early February. But for those few who do want the device — as well as among general …
Image Credits: JOSH EDELSON/AFP / Getty Images Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of this job is that true, game-changing inventions rarely cross your desk. In fact, you’re extraordinarily lucky if you …
Netflix’s TV adaptation of the novel The Three-Body Problem makes some important changes to its source material. Characters in Cixin Liu’s original book are reimagined and split into others. Threads from later books in Liu’s trilogy, known as Remembrance of Earth’s Past, are brought forward into the narrative. And thankfully, the virtual reality video game …
Image Credits: Meta During the congressional online safety hearing in January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that mobile app store providers like Apple and Google should be the ones to implement parental controls for social media. Now, it appears Meta is using its Quest VR store to demonstrate how it thinks devices with app stores …
The early days of 3 Body Problem’s mystery are centered where so many of us find ourselves these days: a video game. This one is, as Jack (John Bradley) describes to Jin (Jess Hong) in the show, light-years ahead of what we know: a VR world where you can really taste, smell, and feel the …
Apple Vision Pro is perhaps the best virtual tool yet for training surgeons, says a company that builds virtual experiences to medical training, adding that its gesture control system is “phenomenal.” Using Apple Vision Pro in training—similar to other VR systems—can reduce surgical training time by 40% to 200%. Best of all, it develops competence …