Customizing your VRChat avatar now includes unique dances, animations, and even follower pets that reflect your digital style. With GoGo Loco and VRCFury, creators can easily integrate these features ...

VRChat creators have a growing toolkit to craft immersive worlds, with new roadmap features, SDK updates, and design strategies shaping the future of social VR spaces. From Unity basics to advanced ...

One day after Meta announced it was shutting down Horizon Worlds in virtual reality, the company’s chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, announced that it’s reversing course. “I have a little bit ...

After a half-hour of headset-on play in an early section of Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echos, I feel optimistic about the franchise’s jump to VR. While its 3D levels may dilute some of the precise ...

Commentary: Meta's pushing its metaverse platform almost entirely to phones. It's the latest sign of a massive shift in the company's focus. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I ...

Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post from Samantha Ryan, Meta's VP of Content, Reality Labs ...

As I sit here and type these words, I can’t help but think of the Meta Quest Pro. According to Meta, I was supposed to be doing all of what I’m doing right now in a VR headset, not on a tired old ...

Virtual reality hardware has come a long way over the years, and new headsets are always just around the corner. Features such as higher resolution, wider field of view, and advanced tracking ...

Earlier this month, Meta laid off 10% of the staff for Reality Labs, its virtual reality unit, reportedly cutting as many as 1,000 employees. Now, in a development that seems directly related, the ...

Immersing stressed volunteers in a 360° virtual Douglas-fir forest complete with sights, sounds and scents boosted their mood, sharpened short-term memory and deepened their feeling of ...

We were never going to work in virtual reality. Anybody who ever plugged their noggin into a headset and tried to complete their daily grind knew it was never going to happen. Now Meta—the company ...