Over half of all US kids and teenagers under the age of 16 play Roblox every month. Read that again. Over half of all US kids and teenagers under the age of 16 play Roblox every month. It’s been going on for years, completely under the radar. You’ve never heard of Roblox. We live in…
I’m writing this at a contemporary teak desk in front of floor to ceiling windows overlooking a lake surrounded by forested mountains. My laptop screen is displayed on a monitor a few feet away with a 60” screen, crisp and bright. The keyboard of the Macbook Air is on the desk in front of me…
Luxuriate in the awfulness of the above picture. It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s avatar in virtual reality, taking a selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower and it’s hard to be sure, maybe Sagrada Familia in Barcelona? Meta released the picture to promote the release of its VR environment Horizon Worlds in Spain and France. Within an hour…
The future of virtual reality may depend on headcrab zombies. Last week, game developer Valve Corporation made a bombshell announcement: it will release a new VR game, Half-Life: Alyx, in March 2020. The gaming and virtual reality communities are going nuts – gamer forums exploding with excited comments and complaints; nonstop articles in the tech press…