Mark Zuckerberg knocks Apple's new App Store policies

The release of Apple's new AR/VR headset, the Apple Vision Pro, may be making headlines this week, but the company is also facing sharp criticism from some of the other biggest companies in the tech space. Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is the latest big tech ... more - mashable

Apple Vision Pro: 5 tweets that show it’s a game-changing headset

People can finally buy Apple Vision Pro. With Apple's fancy new headset making its way into consumers' hands, all sorts of fun use cases are popping up online. You can find many of them on X (formerly Twitter), where people sharing the various activities ... more - mashable

5 reasons Apple Vision Pro will be the hottest new travel accessory

As a frequent flyer, I've noticed an uptick of passengers wearing the AirPods Max. However, there may be another Apple product joining the popular headphones as the next hottest travel accessory: the Vision Pro. Although many journalists and influencers ... more - mashable

Apple Vision Pro: 3 features it shares with Meta Quest 3 that may shock you

Apple Vision Pro has a starting price of nearly $4,000, and yet, some of its best selling points can be found on the $500 Meta Quest 3 headset. Of course, according to journalists who have reviewed the Vision Pro, its cutting-edge internals deliver crisp ... more - mashable

Tim Cook says big Apple AI announcement is coming later this year

Apple is almost ready to show us what it can do in the artificial intelligence space. During Apple's earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company will make an AI announcement sometime in 2024. “As we look ahead, we will continue ... more - mashable

'Eternal You' reveals how AI chatbots aim to resurrect the dead

What if you could talk to the dead... not just to them, but with them? Imagine you could text them as casually as you once did, and they'd text back. What was once the stuff of séances and Ouija boards has gotten a high-tech makeover through artificial ... more - mashable

Apple Vision Pro reviews are in: Here are 8 key takeaways

Apple's Vision Pro could very well be the most important new product Apple will launch this decade. It's a whole new product category for Apple, with a new, accompanying software platform called visionOS and an app ecosystem to match. It's no wonder, ... more - mashable

Diary of an OnlyFans queen at AVN

Every year, the who's who of porn descend on Las Vegas for the annual AVN Awards and Expo. We all know about porn stars, but what goes into being a top porn star at the Oscars of porn? We asked performer Lena the Plug to share with us her AVN diary for ... more - mashable

Apple Vision Pro: 5 cool new features coming to the Zoom app

Apple's Vision Pro headset is hitting store shelves soon — and that means your favorite apps will have new features to accommodate its mixed-reality technology. Well, maybe Zoom isn't your favorite app, but you almost certainly use it from time to time. ... more - mashable

Apple has sold 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, report says

Apple Vision Pro, the company's first foray into the virtual/augmented reality space, is selling like hotcakes. Very expensive hotcakes. According to MacRumors, which cites a source familiar with Apple's sales numbers, the company has sold 200,000 Vision ... more - mashable

People are having sex in VR using Bluetooth sex toys

You load into a public VR world. At first, things seem pretty innocent — until you enter the sauna only a few steps away from the spawn point. Suddenly, you've stumbled upon a public orgy full of e-boys and e-girls with genitals larger than physically ... more - mashable

Apple Vision Pro is for hipsters and hustlers, but who else?

When Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh computer 40 years ago this week, it seemed like there was no limit to the things this futuristic device could do, or the number of units Apple could shift. Some 72,000 Macs were shipped during its first 100 days ... more - mashable

In-store Apple Vision Pro demos: What to expect when you walk in

Most people have probably stepped foot in an Apple Store at least once. The design, layout, and overall vibe of Apple's physical retail locations are iconic. You can likely even picture the stores' table setup with iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and ... more - mashable

Apple's Vision Pro is sold out

Apple's Vision Pro spatial computer is off to a great start. Shortly after it became available for pre-order, the Vision Pro is now effectively sold out, with shipping times for all models being five to seven weeks, and no units available for in-store ... more - mashable

Apple Vision Pro video is giving us 'Black Mirror' vibes

A butterfly lands on the finger of Will, a man wearing sci-fi goggles in a too-perfect midcentury modern room. "Oh wow," says Will of the butterfly, but there's something in his tone that suggests he's faking it. Perhaps it's the discordant ... more - mashable

Netflix's 'The Kitchen' review: A powerful, dystopian tale of community

Dystopian visions of near-future cities can tell us a lot about who we are now while also warning us of what's to come. In Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya's film The Kitchen , set in a not-so-distant London, the power of privatization threatens to crush ... more - mashable

Apple employees can buy the Vision Pro at a discount, but don't get too excited

Apple's VR headset (or spatial computer, as the company calls it), the Vision Pro, is a very expensive piece of kit, starting at $3,499. But Apple employees can apparently get it cheaper, though perhaps not as cheap as they hoped for. According to Bloomberg, ... more - mashable

More Apple Vision Pro hands-on impressions: Heavy, but impressive

Apple has once again invited a slew of journalists to try out its spatial computer (or virtual reality headset, if you prefer), the Vision Pro. From what we've read, the demos weren't all that different from the ones Apple carried out last year. About ... more - mashable

Doja Cat's 'The Scarlet Tour' is coming to life with VR

Doja Cat's ongoing Scarlet tour is coming to life — virtually. The singer's sold-out Detroit show from Dec. 2023 is premiering in Meta Horizon Worlds’ Music Valley, with the help of the Meta Quest 3 VR headset. The show, entitled Doja Cat: The Scarlet ... more - mashable

CES 2024: 3 AR smart glasses that may infiltrate your life soon

AR glasses have made quite the splash at CES 2024. From XREAL to TCL, the Mashable team has stumbled upon some spectacular spectacles that will likely get wider adoption from the masses in a few years time. The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are decent if ... more - mashable

Apple's Vision Pro demos will reportedly last 25 minutes

On February 2, Apple's spatial computer (everyone else calls these virtual reality headsets), the Vision Pro, will hit the stores, and Apple will start offering demos to customers at Apple Store locations in the U.S. We knew this was coming, but details ... more - mashable

24 gadgets from CES 2024 that you can buy already

UPDATE: Jan. 13, 2024, 5:00 a.m. EST This story has been updated with more newly available products from CES 2024. There are a lot of "maybes" and "hope tos" uttered at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), as many of the products ... more - mashable

Google just laid off hundreds of employees

It seems that every January after the festivities of the holidays begin to fade and the winter chill settles in, tech companies begin their rounds of layoffs. Google said on Wednesday that it laid off a few hundred people from its central engineering ... more - mashable

Buzzy CES vibrator looks — and acts — like a remote

CES brings cool tech products — and products that make you say "WTF" — to the forefront. One sextech highlight this year is the Oh!, a new vibrator from Norwegian tech company Ohdoki. The company made waves (or…jerks) at CES last year for its ... more - mashable

Yes, you can try out Apple's Vision Pro for free. Here's how.

Apple's Vision Pro is finally coming to the U.S., with pre-orders starting on Jan. 19 and in-store availability beginning two weeks later on Feb. 2. The augmented reality headset (or spatial computer, as Apple likes to call it) is very expensive. At ... more - mashable

The best of CES 2024

CES 2024 has been a whirlwind for the Mashable team. Some products were bizarre, including the WeHead, which is designed to put a (creepy) face to AI. Others entertained us, including the TCL RayNeo X2 Lite smart glasses and LG’s smart home robot. Now ... more - mashable

3 cool things Sony showed at CES 2024

CES 2024 featured some interesting keynotes, from Kia's modular car revolution to Samsung's AI-home renovation schemes. Sony's showcase also boasted several wow moments that stole the stage at this year's conference. There was a lot that Sony covered ... more - mashable

AI companionship is one of the top 5 trends of CES 2024: Are we that lonely?

As it turns out, a different type of AI made a big splash at CES 2024: AI companionship. We were expecting generative and predictive AI, but this one threw us for a loop. Are we really that lonely? How bad has it gotten that vendors are seeking to give ... more - mashable

Apple says its new Vision Pro isn't VR or AR, it's 'spatial computing'

According to Tim Cook, the era of spatial computing has arrived. The Apple Vision Pro, Apple's newest tech offering, will be available in the U.S. on Feb. 2. To prepare for its launch, Apple has released guidelines for developing apps for the device's ... more - mashable

Get ready: This is Apple's first ad for the Vision Pro

Shortly after announcing the official launch date for its first augmented reality headset, the Vision Pro, Apple released its first ad for the device. The Vision Pro is coming slightly earlier than anticipated, on Feb. 2, with pre-orders opening on Jan. ... more - mashable