Did Mark Zuckerberg’s little dance actually show us real metaverse legs?

Image: Meta During Meta’s Connect conference on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg made a huge announcement: the avatars in the company’s Horizon VR app will be getting legs soon. To demonstrate this groundbreaking technical achievement, Zuckerberg’s digital avatar ... more - theverge

Meta’s workout-friendly Quest Active Pack is releasing October 25th

Image: Meta Meta announced that a new sweat-resistant face mask and controller straps for exercising in the Quest 2 will be available for purchase online starting Tuesday, October 25th. We initially covered the Active Pack exercise-ready accessories ... more - theverge

The Meta Quest Pro will feature the new Snapdragon XR2 Plus VR chip

The Meta Quest Pro virtual reality headset. | Photo by Alex Heath / The Verge Meta finally showed off its Quest Pro virtual reality (VR) headset at its Connect event on Tuesday, revealing that the high-end device will sport the new Snapdragon XR2 Plus ... more - theverge

The Meta Quest Pro costs $1,499 and ships October 25th

The Meta Quest Pro. | Image: Meta Meta has finally announced the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 virtual reality headset it’s been teasing for the past year. The Quest Pro is a new branch of the Quest VR headset lineup, featuring a new processor and screen, ... more - theverge

The Meta Quest Pro is a cutting-edge headset looking for an audience

The Meta Quest Pro | Photo by Alex Heath / The Verge Meta’s new high-end headset introduces eye tracking and mixed reality for $1,499 Continue reading… ... more - theverge

Meta’s making it easier to report bugs in its Horizon VR app

Reporting an issue is as easy as A, B, X, and Y. | Image: Meta Meta has updated Horizon Worlds, its main virtual reality / “metaverse” app, to make it easier to report bugs. If you see something going wrong while using the app, you can now press and ... more - theverge

Palmer Luckey’s military firm is building loitering explosive drones

Anduril’s new drone is adapted from its Altius drone platform, seen here. | Image: Anduril Industries Anduril, the military technology company founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, has announced its first weapon system: an adaptation of its Altius ... more - theverge

Meta’s flagship metaverse app is too buggy and employees are barely using it, says exec in charge

Mark Zuckerberg recently demonstrated the current quality of Meta’s Horizon Worlds avatars. | Mark Zuckerberg / Meta Meta’s VR social network Horizon Worlds — the company’s flagship “metaverse” app — is suffering from too many quality issues and even ... more - theverge

HTC teases a new smaller Vive VR headset

HTC Vive VR teaser : “go small or go home.” While Meta and TikTok owner ByteDance battle to be the premium social media / metaverse company making virtual or augmented reality hardware, HTC is reminding everyone that it has a place in the game, too. ... more - theverge

Tim Cook is latest CEO to question the ‘metaverse’

Tim Cook at the recent iPhone 14 launch. | Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images While Meta funnels billions into CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pitch for the metaverse, Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks most people couldn’t even define the metaverse, let alone spend long ... more - theverge

Anker’s new earbuds line includes models for gaming and sleep

Anker’s Soundcore VR P10 earbuds are designed to provide lag-free audio for gaming. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Anker announced its latest wave of wireless earbuds yesterday, and the products indicate that Anker is expanding its focus beyond the ... more - theverge

Nreal’s $379 AR glasses launch in the US today

The Nreal Air glasses. | Image: Nreal Augmented reality company Nreal is launching its stripped-down Air glasses in the United States. The Nreal Air glasses, unveiled for Asian markets last year, are available on Amazon starting today for $379. The initially ... more - theverge

ByteDance’s new Pico headset is a Quest 2 competitor for Europe and Asia

The Pico 4 headset and controllers | Image: Pico Pico, the Chinese startup acquired last year by TikTok parent company ByteDance, has a new virtual reality headset on the way. The Pico 4, which will sell starting at €429 (around $425) in several European ... more - theverge

The new Quest update will stabilize your shaky VR recordings

Share your sick gameplay footage without actually making people ill. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta is rolling out the v44 software update for Quest headsets, and its big new feature is good news for anyone who likes sharing videos ... more - theverge

PSVR games aren’t compatible with PSVR2 because they aren’t

If you want to play your original PSVR games, you’re going to have to keep your old headset around. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge We finally have an answer about whether the PlayStation VR2 will be able to play games from the original PlayStation ... more - theverge

You can play Half-Life 2 in VR thanks to this free mod

Image: Valve A third-party mod that lets you play through Valve’s Half-Life 2 in room-scale virtual reality will be available in public beta starting at around noon ET. The developers, Source VR Mod Team, are offering it for free; you just need to own ... more - theverge

Lil Nas X is performing at the League of Legends World Championship

Lil Nas X. | Image: Riot Games The opening ceremonies for the League of Legends World Championship are traditionally a big spectacle, featuring everything from augmented reality K-pop groups to rapping holograms. But this year’s edition will have an ... more - theverge

Walmart now lets you virtually model clothing on your own body

Walmarts latest Be Your Own Model feature lets you upload your own images to use in place of default clothing models. | Image: Walmart Walmart shoppers will now be able to virtually try on clothes from the comfort of their own homes using AR technology ... more - theverge

iOS 16.1 beta adds Apple’s ugly new battery percentage indicator to the iPhone Mini

This isn’t an iPhone Mini, but it’s what the indicator looks like. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Apple released the first iOS 16.1 beta to developers on Wednesday, and it lets iPhone users with an iPhone 13 or 12 Mini, an iPhone 11, or iPhone ... more - theverge

We finally got our hands and eyes on the PlayStation VR2

Verge reporter Victoria Song wearing the PSVR2. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge And it’s pretty good Continue reading… ... more - theverge

‘Quest Pro’ pictures may show a sample of Meta’s next VR headset

Image: Ramiro Cardenas via Facebook Images of what appears to be the packaging for a “Meta Quest Pro” virtual reality (VR) headset surfaced online, posted by Facebook user Ramiro Cardenas, who claims it was left in a hotel room (Thanks, Peter! via Reddit). ... more - theverge

Apple might have fixed the notch by putting it on an island

The Dynamic Island may be a goofy name, but its real good looking. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Before there were commercials and whole branding exercises hailing the notch on the Apple iPhone there was a long row of iPhones Xs devices in the ... more - theverge

Meta will reveal its new high-end VR headset on October 11th

New Meta hardware is on the horizon. | Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta has announced that its Connect Conference will be livestreamed on October 11th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. In a post on the Oculus blog, the company says it’ll cover the progress ... more - theverge

Sony’s PlayStation hardware chief to retire next month

Sony’s PlayStation hardware chief retires on October 1st. | Image: Famitsu Sony’s longtime PlayStation hardware chief is retiring on October 1st. 60-year-old Masayasu Ito, who led the engineering for both the PS4 and PS5, is retiring according to Bloomberg ... more - theverge

Meta’s chip deal with Qualcomm may reflect its unrealized VR ambitions

The heat may be hitting Meta’s big bet. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm and Meta have signed a multi-year agreement promising to team up on custom versions of Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR chips for the "future roadmap of Quest products" ... more - theverge

Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you

Image: Lenovo Lenovo is the latest company promoting a USB-C monitor made for your face. The company’s new Glasses T1 put a Full HD OLED screen in front of each of your eyes and were revealed today during IFA and on Lenovo’s virtual showcase. This wearable ... more - theverge

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest bet

A screenshot of Horizon Worlds | Image: Meta Mark Zuckerberg is betting his company’s future on the metaverse — a virtual space in which people interact with each other using avatars and developing AR / VR technology — investing tens of billions of dollars ... more - theverge

Snap is canceling several projects and laying off 20 percent of employees

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap is laying off around 20 percent of its more than 6,400 employees and canceling its original shows, in-app games, and several other projects as part of a corporate restructuring. In a company memo on Wednesday ... more - theverge

Snap plans to lay off 20 percent of employees

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap is planning to lay off approximately 20 percent of its more than 6,400 employees, according to people familiar with the matter. The layoffs, which Snap has been planning for the past several weeks, will begin ... more - theverge

Trademark filings point to ‘Reality’ branding for Apple’s mixed reality headset

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Trademark filings spotted by Bloomberg suggest Apple might incorporate “Reality” in the name and branding of its long-rumored mixed reality headset. Three separate filings show trademarks for “Reality One,” “Reality ... more - theverge