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  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Architecture
    Notre-Dame rescue is buttressed by digital wizardry

    Scientists and designers have created a ‘virtual twin’ of the Paris cathedral to guide its rebuilding

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    FT MagazineTim Bradshaw
    Silicon Valley’s next goal is 3D maps of the world — made by us

    We may not know it but we are being dragooned into Big Tech’s army of cartographers

  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
    From the apocalypse to the environment: the latest in gaming
    Is virtual reality the way forward for museums?

    With the V&A hosting a VR press view for ‘Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser’, the technology seems to offer real potential

  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    Snap Inc
    Snap reaps the benefits of Facebook boycott fallout

    Snapchat parent attracted record number of advertisers as rival grappled with content concerns

  • Monday, 21 September, 2020
    Intellectual property
    Microsoft buys gaming company ZeniMax for $7.5bn

    Deal for maker of ‘Elder Scrolls’ and ‘Fallout’ highlights importance of hunt for original content and subscription plans

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    FT SeriesThe return to the office
    Traders set to don virtual reality headsets in their home offices

    UBS looks at recreating busy trading floors with London VR experiment for homeworkers

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    News in-depthGames industry
    Sony gears up for ultimate round of gaming wars with Microsoft

    Japanese group unveils PlayStation 5 console ahead of fight over next generation technology

  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    News in-depthUK defence spending
    Covid-19 crisis accelerates UK military’s push into virtual war gaming

    Defence chiefs want gaming company to develop digital twin of Britain to test resilience

  • Tuesday, 21 July, 2020
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Cao Fei at the Serpentine Gallery: where virtual and real worlds meet

    The London gallery reopens with its challenging show from the Chinese superstar artist

  • Promoted Content
  • Tuesday, 14 July, 2020
    FT MagazineTim Bradshaw
    How many tech titans does it take to change a light switch?

    Silicon Valley’s war on physical buttons continues — but digital interfaces can be less than intuitive

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    LexGames industry
    Sony/Epic Games: real gains Premium

    ‘Fortnite’ could be used to distribute the Japanese group’s portfolio of music and films

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    Sony Corp
    Sony invests $250m in Fortnite’s Epic Games

    Deal is Japanese group’s latest bet that entertainment will converge around social media

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    InterviewTheatre
    Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett — ‘The real world is this incredible backdrop’

    The artistic director of the immersive theatre group talks about its new adventures in the digital realm

  • Wednesday, 1 July, 2020
    Special ReportWorking From Home
    Hybrid working sets new challenge for collaboration

    ‘Mixed reality’ is among the new tools in the pipeline to help bridge the work-home gap

  • Monday, 1 June, 2020
    Work & Careers
    How virtual reality helps real-life recruitment

    The technology also offers the prospect of remote teams being able to hold avatar-based meetings

  • Thursday, 21 May, 2020
    #techFT
    VR is not a virus reality

    KKR loves Jio too, Monzo chief steps down, Apple’s Covid-19 iOS

  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
    Sony Corp
    Sony ramps up VR efforts as demand for virtual events surges

    Chief Kenichiro Yoshida reveals plans to experiment with streaming concerts on headsets

  • Thursday, 14 May, 2020
    Gianpiero Petriglieri
    We are all Zoombies now, but it has to stop

    Seeing others on video calls is a false intimacy and leaves us grieving for face-to-face life

  • Tuesday, 12 May, 2020
    FT The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    Niantic tops FT list of high-growth companies

    ‘Pokémon Go’ maker crafts plan to become the go-to provider of augmented reality tech

  • Tuesday, 12 May, 2020
    FT The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    Pain for tech start-ups will not be evenly spread

    The fallout is likely to accelerate a shakeout that was already on the cards

  • Wednesday, 22 April, 2020
    Magic Leap
    Magic Leap halves headcount in struggle for survival

    US augmented-reality start-up raised $2.3bn but struggled to gain traction with product

  • Friday, 10 April, 2020
    House & Home
    Property sales go virtual to work around Covid-19

    Viewings are impossible under lockdown but 3D tours, drones and phones are helping

  • Tuesday, 31 March, 2020
    Lex
    Facebook/Plessey: virtual reality check Premium

    Enterprise customers must be shown how useful the tech can be 

  • Friday, 27 March, 2020
    Travel
    Is this the moment virtual-reality travel finally takes off?

    From the peaks of Yosemite to the palace of Versailles, armchair adventures await

  • Thursday, 12 March, 2020
    Magic Leap
    AR headset pioneer Magic Leap considers sale

    Augmented-reality group has also been in talks about raising up to $500m since late last year

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