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Is ‘goggle time’ the new ‘screen time’? Virtual reality brings great risks for our kids

Is ‘goggle time’ the new ‘screen time’? Virtual reality brings great risks for our kids

Technology companies want to corner the market in virtual reality by engaging children, yet we have a limited understanding of how it affects child development.

  • by Therese Keane

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Apple’s vision for mixed reality could make headsets mainstream
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Apple’s vision for mixed reality could make headsets mainstream

Apple’s impossibly high-end $5000 headset likely won’t be an instant hit, but neither was the iPhone nor the Apple Watch.

  • by Tim Biggs
Apple’s cautious step into a brave new world
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Apple

Apple’s cautious step into a brave new world

Apple has launched a new “mixed reality” headset that could eventually be a platform for the long-awaited mass take-up of virtual and augmented reality technologies.

  • by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Apple launches Vision Pro headset
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Apple launches Vision Pro headset

Apple launches a virtual reality headset, Vision Pro, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino.

‘New era’: Apple dives into ‘spatial computing’ with extended reality headset
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‘New era’: Apple dives into ‘spatial computing’ with extended reality headset

Apple has announced its first extended reality headset, alongside a stack of new computers and a first look at its latest iPhone software, at its annual developer conference in California.

  • by Tim Biggs
HTC’s latest VR has one foot in a future that doesn’t quite exist yet
Analysis
Gadgets

HTC’s latest VR has one foot in a future that doesn’t quite exist yet

The modular VIVE XR Elite is an impressively small set of goggles that can work untethered or connected to a PC, and may become a defacto rival to Apple’s headset.

  • by Tim Biggs
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It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to bury his dreams of the metaverse
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Innovation

It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to bury his dreams of the metaverse

The billions of dollars invested on the virtual world is increasingly looking like an example of corporate hubris.

  • by Matthew Lynn
Virtual-reality gadget with expected $4000-plus price tag has Apple insiders rattled
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Virtual-reality gadget with expected $4000-plus price tag has Apple insiders rattled

Apple proved its critics wrong with the Watch, but virtual reality could be a far tougher nut to crack.

  • by Tim Biggs
Why a Sydney junior league is strapping VR goggles on 3000 players

Why a Sydney junior league is strapping VR goggles on 3000 players

Young rugby league players will have their cognitive function tested by virtual reality technology as the code grapples with how to protect their brains from long-term harm.

  • by Angus Dalton
How virtual reality is helping young people with their mental health

How virtual reality is helping young people with their mental health

In a daunting cafe scene, a dubious-looking man in sunglasses gives our reporter the hairy eyeball before her credit card is declined. Welcome to the new world of therapy for mental health.

  • by Jewel Topsfield
Meta is paying the price for Zuckerberg’s vanity

Meta is paying the price for Zuckerberg’s vanity

With 11,000 workers axed, the social media founder needs to forget his virtual world and live in the real one.

  • by Matthew Lynn