This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. It’s big. It’s weird. It’s curved around the wrist like a mouse that melted onto a watch strap. And maybe HTC’s Vive brand has finally hit upon the future of VR controllers. HTC’s product announcements at …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. The future of VR might be glasses-sized. Shiftall, a division of Panasonic, revealed a pair of compact goggles that use MicroOLED displays and seem a lot closer to smart glasses than the Oculus Quest 2. Oh, and there’s also an optional …
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A ton of companies are racing to get people interconnecting in an immersive metaverse using smart glasses. Right now, few even exist that can work with the phones in our pockets, though. Qualcomm’s latest initiative called Snapdragon Spaces seeks to act as the glue between phones and future smart glasses, with a focus on supporting open web platforms. The catch, …
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The year has gone by in a blink and, throughout it, Facebook’s VR headset remains one of my favorite pieces of tech. As Facebook pushes to reinvent itself, perhaps even rename itself amid recent turmoil, and makes a new wave of AR/VR communication the backbone of a metaverse, the Oculus Quest 2 seems like the little $300 device at the center …
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How good can VR look? That answer has a sliding scale. Most everyday headsets like the Oculus Quest 2 look sharper and better than ever; others, like the HP Reverb G2, take another leap for simulation accuracy. Then there’s the Varjo Aero, a $1,990 headset arriving by the end of this year — where image quality (and price for the non-business …
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It has been six years since HTC made its first VR headset. But the company’s latest product, the Vive Flow, takes a totally new approach. The phone-connected VR glasses, coming later this year for $500, can make their own prescription adjustments. That means you don’t need to wear glasses at all, provided the Flow’s prescription-adjusting range fits your eyes. And, …
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A year after Facebook released its Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, and weeks before Facebook’s VR and AR-focused Connect conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook CTO-to-be Andrew Bosworth showed off prototype VR headsets on social media. Whether these are anything related to products to come remains to be seen. I spent the day with the Facebook Reality Labs research team in …
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HTC’s social media accounts have been teasing a #GoWithTheFlow event for a little while now, with what looks to be a new VR headset announcement. Some recent leaks paint a pretty clear picture of what HTC will release, if they’re accurate, but the best way to be sure would be to watch the launch event Thursday. And because it’s HTC, …
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HTC is widely expected to unveil its new Vive Flow VR headset on Thursday, but we may already have an idea of what it looks like, thanks to images posted by prolific leaker Evan Blass. The first batch of images Blass posted to Twitter appears to show the headset with a tether connection to another device, perhaps something portable like …
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I got to meet Mark Zuckerberg two days ago, during a meeting in a conference room along with a handful of other tech reporters. He talked about the metaverse and the future of work. That’s not all that unusual. What was unusual is that the CEO of Facebook beamed into our demo session on a shaft of light — and was a …
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