Virtual reality
Opinion
Social media
Is ‘goggle time’ the new ‘screen time’? Virtual reality brings great risks for our kids
Technology companies want to corner the market in virtual reality by engaging children, yet we have a limited understanding of how it affects child development.
- by Therese Keane
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Analysis
Gadgets
Apple’s vision for mixed reality could make headsets mainstream
Apple’s impossibly high-end $5000 headset likely won’t be an instant hit, but neither was the iPhone nor the Apple Watch.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
Apple
Apple’s cautious step into a brave new world
Apple has launched a new “mixed reality” headset that could eventually be a platform for the long-awaited mass take-up of virtual and augmented reality technologies.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Apple launches Vision Pro headset
Apple launches a virtual reality headset, Vision Pro, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino.
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Gadgets
‘New era’: Apple dives into ‘spatial computing’ with extended reality headset
Apple has announced its first extended reality headset, alongside a stack of new computers and a first look at its latest iPhone software, at its annual developer conference in California.
- by Tim Biggs
Analysis
Gadgets
HTC’s latest VR has one foot in a future that doesn’t quite exist yet
The modular VIVE XR Elite is an impressively small set of goggles that can work untethered or connected to a PC, and may become a defacto rival to Apple’s headset.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
Innovation
It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to bury his dreams of the metaverse
The billions of dollars invested on the virtual world is increasingly looking like an example of corporate hubris.
- by Matthew Lynn
Analysis
Extra
Virtual-reality gadget with expected $4000-plus price tag has Apple insiders rattled
Apple proved its critics wrong with the Watch, but virtual reality could be a far tougher nut to crack.
- by Tim Biggs
Why a Sydney junior league is strapping VR goggles on 3000 players
Young rugby league players will have their cognitive function tested by virtual reality technology as the code grapples with how to protect their brains from long-term harm.
- by Angus Dalton
How virtual reality is helping young people with their mental health
In a daunting cafe scene, a dubious-looking man in sunglasses gives our reporter the hairy eyeball before her credit card is declined. Welcome to the new world of therapy for mental health.
- by Jewel Topsfield
Opinion
Social media
Meta is paying the price for Zuckerberg’s vanity
With 11,000 workers axed, the social media founder needs to forget his virtual world and live in the real one.
- by Matthew Lynn