Nobody mourns the metaverse: What went wrong with Zuckerberg's vision and what is next for VR?

After changing its name and going all-in on virtual reality, Meta is scaling back its metaverse operations. But that could be ...

New VR Games in February 2026: World War Flight Simulator "Aces of Thunder"

With "Aces of Thunder", Gaijin Entertainment is launching a VR flight simulation in February featuring historically accurate World War aircraft.
Road to VR

Google’s Project Genie Makes Real-time Explorable Virtual Worlds, Offering a Peek Into VR’s Future

DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced Genie 3 last August, showing off an AI system capable of generating interactive ...
The New Yorker

“An Ark” Imagines the Afterlife; “Data” Imagines a Corporate Hell

Mostly, “An Ark” resembled a webinar with a staring contest, one that no human could win. There will be future applications of “mixed reality,” I’m sure, and I hope they work with funkier material.