Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft wants to own the next reality 1:34 Virtual reality is here, but Microsoft’s HoloLens is not. Microsoft doesn’t want to build a traditional VR headset, and it doesn’t know when its augmented reality (AR) headgear will be ready for market. Until then, Microsoft has a plan. It will use the …

“Star Wars,” “Captain America,” “The Jungle Book” and “Finding Dory” — this September, Netflix will become the exclusive place to stream all of Disney’s latest movies. It’s a deal that’s taken nearly four years to bear fruit. In 2012, Netflix and Disney said they’d reached an arrangement to make Netflix the exclusive US subscription television provider of first-run, live-action and …

In VR, what you hear is almost as important as what you see. Perhaps that’s why Facebook just bought Two Big Ears, an Edinburgh-based spacial audio company. Terms of the acquisition weren’t disclosed. Two Big Ears specializes in a set of tools that lets virtual-reality content creators build a 3D sound stage, taking sound from a variety of sources and …

Facebook Live lets you broadcast whatever your smartphone can see for up to 90 minutes at a time. But soon you might be able to keep on streaming as long as you like. TechCrunch reported Monday that a new “continuous live video” API is coming to Facebook’s broadcast partners, which would allow them to keep streaming beyond the 90-minute time …

Soon, you may be able to strap a gadget on your wrist to keep tabs on your alcohol consumption. It’s called the BACtrack Skyn, and it’s not a breathalyzer. You don’t need to bring it up to your mouth. Instead, the gadget uses an electrochemical sensor to measure your sweat — which, when you’re drinking, will typically contain ethanol. Then, …

Now playing: Watch this: Project Ara: Google’s vision for the future of the smartphone 2:59 Rafa Camargo is playing ping-pong. Thirty minutes ago, he placed the world’s most interesting smartphone into his jacket pocket. Now that jacket and its precious contents are lying on the floor. Right under my nose. Camargo is the lead engineer on Project Ara, Google’s attempt …

Google and Levi Strauss are showing off their latest wear: a commuter smart jacket. The tech giant and denim maker on Friday unveiled the jacket, which is part of their Project Jacquard collaboration geared toward cyclists on the move. The jacket will be available in a beta version this fall with a widespread release planned for next spring. It wasn’t …

Now playing: Watch this: Watch Google transform a humble Chromebook into an Android… 1:26 Google’s Chromebooks just got a lot more useful. The Google laptops are known for affordable prices (a Chromebook can be had for $169) but also a limited selection of apps, thanks to their inability to run Windows or Mac OS programs. But starting in June, Chromebooks …

Google’s new virtual reality initiative, Daydream, is promising “the best smartphone -based mobile VR experience” ever made. But for now, the Daydream VR headset is just an abstract concept, a sketch on paper — even for the developers that Google expects to start building apps for the platform. What using the Daydream controller might be like. GIF by Sean Hollister/CNET …

You think cat videos on YouTube are funny? Wait until you watch them in a virtual reality headset. Google plans to release in the fall a version of its YouTube app designed for virtual reality, allowing you to strap on a head-mounted display to view both conventional clips and 360-degree videos that let you swivel your head around for a …