Meta continues to field criticism over how it handles younger consumers using its platforms, but the company is also planning new products that will cater to them. On Monday, the company announced in a blog post that later this year it will be launching a new education product for Quest to position its VR headset … Read more
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Meta is launching a new hub for Quest headsets later this year that should make it easier for educators to use them in schools. In a blog post on Monday, Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, writes that the hub will let teachers access “education-specific apps and features,” along with tools to manage all … Read more
CT scans of the Meta Quest Pro (left) and Meta Quest 3 (right). Lumafield We’ve all seen those teardowns of the Apple Vision Pro and Meta’s Quest 3 and Quest Pro headsets, where they’re dismantled down to their component bits and pieces. While this approach gives us a peek at what’s inside, it’s tough to … Read more
Jason Hiner/ZDNET I’ve spent a couple months with the Apple Vision Pro, I’ve used the Meta Quest 3 almost daily since it launched in October 2023, and I’ve tried most of the other XR headsets available. I’ve also talked to XR developers about the state of the industry and their plans for the future. And I’d recommend most … Read more
It’s not as hard to buy a new PlayStation 5 as it used to be, but its capabilities are still impressive. The cybernetic clamshell tower of a console is packed to the gills with killer hardware. It can run games in native 4K, hit frame rates in excess of 120 frames per second, and output … Read more
In May 2019, Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion became Ultraleap (not to be confused with Magic Leap, which operates in the same space). It’s a name change representing the marriage of two different, yet related, tech startups. Ultrahaptics naturally got top billing, as it was the one doing the acquiring – paying around $30 million for … Read more
I spend too much time at my desk. Between doing my job, and then alt-tabbing over to the games I play, it’s easy to lose track of how long I spend sitting at the same computer. Which means I’ve had to invest heavily into making my desk a comfortable place to be. Fortunately, you don’t … Read more
Screenshot by David Gewirtz/ZDNET Before you think I’m being weirdly paranoid, or I’m one of those people who demands a VPN on everything, think again. There is a very compelling use case for VPNs on mixed-reality headsets. Also: 10 reasons the Apple Vision Pro is secretly brilliant In this article, I’ll talk about that use case … Read more
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The Meta Quest 3 will soon give wearers the ability to easily view spatial videos as well as use new pinching gestures for control, features that are similar to what you’ll find in Apple’s much more expensive Vision Pro headset that launches this week. Both changes are starting to roll out gradually as part of … Read more
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