How to Get iOS Notifications on Your Oculus Quest
Screenshot: David Murphy Entering virtual reality is fun, but it can also be productive: Lately, I’ve found it a fairly decent way to get in a quick workout. However, strapping…
The Metaverse Is Hosting Its First Virtual Fashion Show
The online metaverse and social networking site IMVU grew by 44 percent during the pandemic; it now attracts 7 million active users a month, most of them female or female-identifying…
How to Reduce Motion Sickness in Virtual Reality
VR is more accessible than ever, thanks to affordable, stand-alone headsets like the Oclulus Quest lowering the barrier to entry. And from addictive games like Beat Saber to immersive story-driven…
5 Years After the Oculus Rift, Where Do VR and AR Go Next?
Atman Binstock was working late one night in the summer of 2015 when he saw a door open that shouldn’t have been open. There were only two keys to the…
Underwater Meditation and the Therapeutic Benefits of VR
There’s the aptly named Guided Meditation VR, a classic way to get in your daily practice. It helps having pleasing scenes to peruse with my eyes open, while still sitting…
Billionaires See VR as a Way to Avoid Radical Social Change
The future of virtual reality is far more than just video games. Silicon Valley sees the creation of virtual worlds as the ultimate free-market solution to a political problem. In…
The WIRED Guide to Virtual Reality
When actual VR took root in our minds as an all-encompassing simulacrum is a little fuzzier. As with most technological breakthroughs, the vision likely began with science fiction—specifically Stanley G.…