Business & Tech Apple Unveils One Very Expensive and Slick AR/VR Headset, the Vision Pro, On Sale Next Year At the annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook got to do one of those famous "One more thing..." product drops, this time with Apple's biggest new piece of hardware since the Apple Watch.
Business & Tech Meta Announces That Metaverse Avatars Will Soon Gain Legs — Also, They'd Like to Sell You a $1,500 VR Headset "It's painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing." That's a TechCrunch headline on an article about Meta's VR developer conference this week, at which the company unveiled a new $1,500 headset for use in the still very beta metaverse.
Business & Tech Facebook Wants to Build a Hi-Res Version of 'Second Life' It's Calling the 'Metaverse' Facebook's latest futuristic idea, which the company says it wants to build with a team of 10,000 new hires in Europe, sounds like a fancy new version of the mid-aughts virtual reality desktop game Second Life, only with Zuckerberg watching your online travels.
SF News Several Notable Tech Bros Embroiled In Sex Harassment Scandal at VR Startup There may be sighs of relief today at the Bay Area’s most allegedly sexually toxic work environments like Uber and Zenefits, because another “condoms and sex in the workplace” scandal has arrived
Arts & Entertainment Geena Davis Talks About VR Film Short 'Dear Angelica,' The Final Production By Facebook's Oculus Story Studio San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Emmy-winning Oculus Story Studio, computerized paint strokes, and Geena Davis have come together to create a 12-minute virtual reality story that has consistently
SF News Innovation! The Gold Club Is Launching A Virtual Reality Stripping Experience Men who crave the experience of a strip club without leaving the comfort of their own living room — or more likely, basement or cave — you're in luck! The Gold Club has
Arts & Entertainment VR Porn Has Coming Out Party at Kink.com The era of immersive, 360-degree simulated sex on your smartphone has finally arrived. One would have figured that the recent release of the Oculus Rift, Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s
SF News Oculus Rift To Be Released Monday, Nerds Rejoice Get set, nerds! In a determined step toward a digital future, Facebook is set to release its first round of Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets early next week. The Rifts differ from the
Arts & Entertainment Virtual Reality Porn Is Coming To Facebook's Oculus Rift You knew this day was coming: virtual reality porn will soon be available on your Oculus Rift. Utherverse, the self-proclaimed "world's only 3D social network," unveiled at the
SF News Bored With Reality, Facebook Buys Virtual Reality Startup For $2 Billion Facebook announced Tuesday that it would blow through another $2 billion in cash and common stock to acquire start-up Oculus, makers of Oculus Rift head-mounted virtual reality display. In a Facebook
