If you’re VR-curious, there are a few ways to dive into gifts for yourself and others over Black Friday. Most things on this list are virtual-reality headsets, but one (the Avegant Glyph) is really a head-worn display — in other words, a tiny TV inside a pair of headphones…in a sense. $100 gift code with …

Google‘s Daydream VR platform always hinged on having multiple phones working on it. And now, Moto Z phones will be able to work with the headset and its apps, too. The Moto Z and Z Force both will receive Android 7.0 software this week, and along with that update will come compatibility with the Daydream View VR headset. These are …

Smartwatches and fitness trackers — heck, all consumer electronics — have one major downside: battery life. They need to be charged. What if they didn’t, though? Conquering the challenges of batteries and the limits of power-efficient processing are things the electronics industry as a whole continues to struggle with. One company thinks it has found a small solution that could …

If you’re an aspiring DIY interior designer, you could be getting some help from 3D room-scanning technology. 3D depth-sensing cameras like Google’s Tango tech on the upcoming Lenovo Phab 2 Pro can do things normal cameras can’t, like create an on-the-fly accurate 3D model of a space that could later be used to overlay interior decorating designs or even modeling …

Wanna get away? If you’re looking for a ticket out of this universe, at least temporarily, VR can deliver that on your phone. Or, even give you ways to reach out and communicate with the world. Samsung (with Facebook) and Google offer you two options: the Samsung Gear VR, and the new Google Daydream View. They work with recent Samsung …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Gear S3 is a super-big superwatch 1:46 Samsung’s next-generation Gear S3 smartwatch, unveiled back in August, is arriving soon. Both the Gear S3 LTE-connected and Bluetooth-only versions will arrive in time for the holidays, hitting US shelves on November 18. Preorders start November 6. According to Samsung’s press release, the watches will be available at …

Eye-tracking might be the next great wave in virtual reality tech. If you’re dead-set on being an early adopter, intriguing startup Fove has finally made their worlds-first eye-tracking headset, the Fove 0, available for preorders starting today. Fove 0 promises eye-based controls for focusing on objects, controlling interfaces via eye movements and selectively rendering details more intricately depending on where …

The Apple Watch does a lot of things, but it didn’t have a camera. Now it does, thanks to a new band. Are you ready to start taking wrist-snaps? Glide, makers of a video chat app for iPhone, just launched CMRA, a new Apple Watch band that has dual cameras built in. Much like Samsung’s long-departed Gear watches with cameras …

Microsoft and Apple faced off with different ideas of the creative computing future last week, and in many ways Microsoft looked like more of the innovator. The new wheel-like Surface Dial, a larger Surface Studio touchscreen computer, an improved Surface Book, and a bold attack strategy regarding affordable virtual-reality headsets as a patient build-up to a broader mixed reality future …

The first time I saw the Touch Bar on Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops, I thought: hey, there’s a little strip of an iPad grafted onto that Mac. Macs don’t have touch. At this point, they’re the outliers in the computing world. Windows and Chrome touch computers have flooded the world for years, now. There are tablets. There are phones. …