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Why the Oculus Rift inventor made a VR headset that can kill you

Palmer Luckey, the creator of the original Oculus Rift VR headset, made a modified Quest Pro that can physically harm you if you lose in a game.

Game over: Oculus creator designs VR headset that ‘destroys the brain of the user’

Game over: Oculus creator designs VR headset that ‘destroys the brain of the user’

New VR headset concept ups the ante for esports with the prospect of instant death

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UFC announces Meta partnership for live and on-demand MMA events in VR on Fight Pass

UFC announces Meta partnership for live and on-demand MMA events in VR on Fight Pass

It appears the speculation about the reason for Mark Zuckerberg's appearance at UFC Fight Night 211 can end.

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Meta Quest 2 review — a solid entry-level VR headset

Decent specs and a comfortable, plus the Quest's expansive apps and games library, made the Meta Quest 2 the best all-around VR headset at launch. It's now been replaced by the Meta Quest 3, but it's still a great entry-level headset.

Virtual reality, autonomous weapons and the future of war: military tech startup Anduril comes to Australia

Earlier this month, posters started going up around Sydney advertising an event called “In the Ops Room, with Palmer Luckey”. Rather than an album launch or standup gig, this turned out to be a free talk given last week by the chief executive of a high-tech US defence company called…

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Meta finally stops foisting Facebook onto Oculus users

Meta accounts are rolling out in August and offer a more diverse array of pre-set privacy options.

Developers Chide Meta For Exploiting Its Dominance To Charge For Metaverse Activities

Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ: META) faced the heat over its metaverse activity fees, the Financial Times

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4 Largest Acquisitions By Meta Platforms: Oculus, Instagram And More

4 Largest Acquisitions By Meta Platforms: Oculus, Instagram And More

Since its founding in 2004, Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB), formerly known as Facebook, has acquired roughly 94 companies. The corporation employs a variety of intensive growth techniques, the most important of which is asset diversification.

Meta Opens First Physical Store

Meta Opens First Physical Store

Facebook parent Meta has opened its first physical store - in Burlingame, California - to showcase its hardware products like virtual and augmented reality goggles and glasses. The store, which is open to the public as of Monday, is made for people who want to test out products like Ray-Ban…

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How to cast your Meta Quest 2 to a TV, PC, or phone

How to cast your Meta Quest 2 to a TV, PC, or phone

VR can be a lonesome experience unless you cast what you’re seeing to a TV, computer, or phone screen for friends and family to see. Here’s how to do that.

The Guardian view on online dangers: the internet needs a retrofit

The Guardian view on online dangers: the internet needs a retrofit

Editorial: European governments are acting on the dangers of big tech. An alarming dispatch from the metaverse shows why they must hurry up

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Is Facebook Ready To Buy A Major Gaming Stock?

Is Facebook Ready To Buy A Major Gaming Stock?

Facebook’s transition into Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB) and Mark Zuckerberg’s big push into the metaverse — the concept of a shared 3D virtual platform where people can socialize, work, and play — spurred a sector-wide move by tech companies to branch out into other areas like gaming.

The 9 best apps to get started working in VR

The 9 best apps to get started working in VR

Whether you’re ready or not, virtual workspaces are coming to replace our work-from-home world.

The 11 best hardcore VR games you should play right now

The 11 best hardcore VR games you should play right now

Full virtual reality titles are still in short supply, but there are plenty of gems available whether you’re a beginner or veteran VR user.

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From ‘The Lawnmower Man’ to Meta: VR’s most important moments

Thirty years ago an adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Lawnmower Man’ hyper-fixated on the dangers of “virtual reality." Here’s a short timeline of how VR has become a mainstream buzzword.

Predators use virtual reality chatroom to target children on popular gaming device

Within minutes of entering one of the virtual reality worlds on VRChat, where adults mix with children who are much younger than the Oculus’s age limit of over 13, we witnessed shocking scenes

How Facebook is morphing into Meta

The Instagram engineer had already packed his bags for a December vacation when his boss pulled him into a virtual meeting to talk about job goals for 2022.

Oculus Quest brings hassle-free virtual reality to your home for a bargain price

Designed to generate more interest in virtual reality, Oculus is releasing a low-cost headset that's entirely self-contained

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