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    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      ByteDance
      ByteDance’s VR division announces restructuring and staff cuts

      Move by TikTok owner reflects downturn in a market that has been eclipsed by AI boom

      Students play virtual reality games at a technology expo in Hong Kong
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Special ReportNext Tech Growth Markets
      Virtual and augmented reality accelerates from gaming to cars

      Autonomous vehicles predicted to spur demand for VR and AR with passenger diversions such as movies and karaoke

      Woman wearing Meta’s Quest 3 headset
    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      InterviewExecutive MBA
      Pilot project: airline captain turns entrepreneur

      A demanding executive MBA after cancer treatment inspired a virtual reality training start-up

      Evey Cormican poses for a portrait
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Legoland owner to roll out augmented reality games to lure visitors

      Merlin Entertainments has struck a licensing deal with Immersive Gamebox

      kids play in an Immersive Gamebox games room
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Special ReportUpskilling
      The high costs and slow take-up of virtual reality for employee training

      Many companies are still trying to figure out how VR can contribute to learning and development

      Strivr, a VR training company based in Palo Alto, California
    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      News in-depthMagic Leap
      Magic Leap seeks turnaround as Big Tech invests in augmented reality

      Start-up’s valuation crashed amid poor headset sales but it has gained a competitive edge selling IP around high-tech optics

      Montage of the logos of Meta and Apple, and a headset
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      John Thornhill
      What happens when AI passes through the ‘uncanny valley’?

      Robots are close to being so convincing that we can’t tell them apart from humans — and that could be a problem

      A realistic AI-generated photo of a human eye
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Apple’s Vision Pro headset attracts investors back to lacklustre sector

      Mixed reality start-ups gain from tech giant’s aim to usher in new era of ‘spatial computing’

      Apple’s Vision Pro headsets
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness of Golf
      Off-course golf spearheads the way to transforming the game

      Newcomers to the sport flock to its virtual side but, then, not all modernists are shunning the course

      customers at a bar and restaurant that uses simulators to create a virtual driving range and a number of simulated golf courses
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans

      Initial hopes of 1mn shipments in 2024 launch year dashed by manufacturing problems

      Apple’s Vision Pro virtual reality headsets on display on stands at the company’s campus in Cupertino, California
    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      John Gapper
      Apple’s Vision Pro headset has made the metaverse feel outdated

      The technology company’s late entry into ‘mixed reality’ this week exposed the flaw in Meta’s virtual worlds

      Media photograph the new Apple Vision Pro headset on display in California this week.
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      LexElaine Moore
      The Lex Newsletter: Apple, VR and the $37bn elephant in the room Premium content

      Losses at Meta’s Reality Labs demonstrate how excitement about new products often fails to translate into sales

      Apple’s new Vision Pro virtual reality headset and Nintendo’s 1995 Virtual Boy video game console
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      Apple Inc
      We asked metaverse users what they think of Apple’s VR headset

      Or at least we tried to

    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      News in-depthApple Inc
      Hands on with Apple’s Vision Pro: bringing the metaverse to life

      Our FT correspondent is among the first to try the tech giant’s impressive ‘mixed reality’ headset. But does anyone really need it?

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Apple unveils Vision Pro ‘mixed reality’ headset

      Device will sell for $3,499 and be available ‘early next year’

      A person wears an Apple virtual reality headset
    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      LexApple Inc
      Apple: Vision Pro headset looks good but offers no new ideas for VR Premium content

      The company can afford to try out the technology without betting its future on it

      The Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California
    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      News in-depth
      Apple to offer vision of mixed-reality future beyond the smartphone

      Shares hit all-time high ahead of expected presentation of a headset, the most important launch in years

    • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
      Virtual reality start-ups pin hopes on Apple to lure back funding

      Frenzy over iPhone maker’s longed-for launch of mixed reality headset has reached ‘fever pitch’

      An Apple logo in front of an Apple store
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Inside BusinessRichard Waters
      Apple’s mixed reality headset is a hedge against disruption

      Virtual world venture makes sense ahead of a technology revolution that could threaten the iPhone empire

      A man takes a picture with an iPhone
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Meta unveils new virtual reality device ahead of Apple headset launch

      Chief Mark Zuckerberg teases new Quest 3 product as tech group continues to develop metaverse ambitions

      Meta’s Quest 3 device in use
    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      Facebook parent in talks with Magic Leap over augmented reality deal

      Social media giant seeks technologies to help create an avatar-filled ‘metaverse’

      Montage showing man in AR goggles and Meta logo
    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      ReviewScience books
      Virtual You — how digital doppelgängers could help us lead a healthy life

      An analysis of the potential of technology to transform personalised medicine is both stimulating and comprehensive

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      LexMeta Platforms
      Meta: virtual reality ambitions meet real-world problems Premium content

      Spending on the metaverse may give users more tools to play with but it comes at a high price

      Montage of Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s logo and images from the company’s VR game Horizon Worlds
    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      Special ReportOnline MBA 2023
      Courses in the metaverse struggle to compete with real world

      Fulfilment of initial promise made for the technology remains elusive

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy

      New launch will be first steered entirely by CEO and under direction of operations team

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