How to Choose Between the Meta Quest 2, Apple Vision Pro, and Vive Pro 2
Consumers hoping to take their first steps into virtual reality (or upgrade their current VR setup) are facing a dilemma: Buy a standalone system like the Meta Quest 3 when…
Get a Meta Quest 2 VR for $299, Plus a $50 Gift Card
Screenshot: Amazon Retailers Best Buy and Amazon are offering a Meta Quest 2 VR system bundled with either an Amazon or Best Buy gift card right now. The bundles are…
Boss Ladies of Web3 are Celebrating the Influx of Female Talent in India
Women in India are entering the technology sector in large numbers, while female-led startups from Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai have collectively raised $20.5 billion (roughly Rs. 1,63,645 crore) in industrial…
Metaverse, AI Need Regulation for Healthy Competition: EU Antitrust Chief
The metaverse, shared virtual worlds accessible via the Internet, is the next digital market to attract regulatory scrutiny, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday.The metaverse has come into…
What Web3 Can Learn From Archive of Our Own
Without context, fanworks might not seem like something worth preserving—a problem that long predates the web. Many fanzines and other collections have been lost forever; as the Fannish Estate Planning…
Def Jam Just Signed a Bunch of NFT Whales
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Working in journalism, you get a lot…
Watch the Trailer for Drone Racing League’s Project Drone Galaxy
Project Drone Galaxy, the upcoming metaverse game by the Drone Racing League (DRL) got a new trailer. The DRL has partnered with the Algorand blockchain to launch a game in…
CES 2023: These Firms Are Bringing Smelling, Touching to the Metaverse
Is the metaverse closer than we think?It depends on who you ask at CES, where companies are showing off innovations that could immerse us deeper into virtual reality, otherwise known…
I Threw a Holiday Party in Horizon Worlds. It Didn’t Go Well
Reasonable people can debate whether or not a social VR application is meaningfully different enough from, say, a video game to earn an entirely new moniker. What reasonable people cannot…
Coming Soon: More Ways to Be Yourself in the Metaverse
The limitless variety of fashion items, skin colors, body shapes, hair styles and other options for digital identities on today’s immersive platforms already allow millions to be whomever they want…