Virtual reality
Once ‘so sad’, Snapchat is back in the frame
The app is rapidly adding users, even as Twitter steals the limelight, and its co-founder says it is starting to explore the use of NFTs.
- by Nick Bonyhady
Latest
VR edges closer to mainstream success, thanks in part to Meta
Virtual reality has been gaining popularity. But the success of Meta’s headset may put the future of VR in the company’s hands.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
AI
We might be in a simulation. How much should that worry us?
Virtual reality is getting very real - real enough to call into question what “reality” even means.
- by Farhad Manjoo
Drone delivery, DAOs, digital docs: The tech trends to watch out for in 2022
As technology advances, it is anyone’s guess what craze 2022 might hold. Here are some predictions what to watch out for this year.
- by Matthew Field and James Titcomb
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Performing arts
From ‘nature porn’ to gay porn, this is groundbreaking VR art
Fringe Focus Taiwan, now showing in Melbourne, is an eclectic and adventurous sample of the emerging field of VR art.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Invasive surveillance: Are regulators ready to deal with Facebook’s ‘metaverse’?
The warning on the metaverse is clear: “This is probably the most invasive surveillance technology we’re going to bring into our homes in the next decade.”
- by Lisa Visentin
Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in Europe to build ‘metaverse’
The metaverse essentially is a massive virtual world that can be accessed in real time by millions of people using avatars.
- by Kelvin Chan and Matt O'Brien
Opinion
Innovation
Computers will conquer your face
The stage feels set in a way that recalls the period before the iPhone’s first release in 2007. We’re on the cusp of something big: The face computer is coming.
- by Farhad Manjoo
Internet’s next chapter: Facebook sees us living in virtual reality
Welcome to the metaverse: Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t just want you logging in to his social media sites. He wants you living, working and even exercising inside them.
- by Kurt Wagner
I went to the world’s first virtual music concert and all I got was an unsexy robot suit and a headache
I never work out how or why I’m hearing that cartoon cow dude “moo” at me repeatedly.
- by Michael Dwyer
AR: The cutting-edge technology slowly changing your reality
Augmented reality has slowly become a part of our lives without many realising it. Experts say it is now ready to reach its full potential.
- by Stuart Layt