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    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      LexElaine Moore
      The Lex Newsletter: Apple, VR and the $37bn elephant in the room Premium content

      Losses at Meta’s Reality Labs demonstrate how excitement about new products often fails to translate into sales

    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      Apple Inc
      We asked metaverse users what they think of Apple’s VR headset

      Or at least we tried to

    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      News in-depthApple Inc
      Hands on with Apple’s Vision Pro: bringing the metaverse to life

      Our FT correspondent is among the first to try the tech giant’s impressive ‘mixed reality’ headset. But does anyone really need it?

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Apple unveils Vision Pro ‘mixed reality’ headset

      Device will sell for $3,499 and be available ‘early next year’

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      LexApple Inc
      Apple: Vision Pro headset looks good but offers no new ideas for VR Premium content

      The company can afford to try out the technology without betting its future on it

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      News in-depth
      Apple to offer vision of mixed-reality future beyond the smartphone

      Shares hit all-time high ahead of expected presentation of a headset, the most important launch in years

    • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
      Virtual reality start-ups pin hopes on Apple to lure back funding

      Frenzy over iPhone maker’s longed-for launch of mixed reality headset has reached ‘fever pitch’

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Inside BusinessRichard Waters
      Apple’s mixed reality headset is a hedge against disruption

      Virtual world venture makes sense ahead of a technology revolution that could threaten the iPhone empire

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Meta unveils new virtual reality device ahead of Apple headset launch

      Chief Mark Zuckerberg teases new Quest 3 product as tech group continues to develop metaverse ambitions

    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      Facebook parent in talks with Magic Leap over augmented reality deal

      Social media giant seeks technologies to help create an avatar-filled ‘metaverse’

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      ReviewScience books
      Virtual You — how digital doppelgängers could help us lead a healthy life

      An analysis of the potential of technology to transform personalised medicine is both stimulating and comprehensive

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      LexMeta Platforms
      Meta: virtual reality ambitions meet real-world problems Premium content

      Spending on the metaverse may give users more tools to play with but it comes at a high price

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      Special ReportOnline MBA 2023
      Courses in the metaverse struggle to compete with real world

      Fulfilment of initial promise made for the technology remains elusive

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy

      New launch will be first steered entirely by CEO and under direction of operations team

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      FT SeriesBetween worlds: a metaverse special
      On your marks, headset, go: my surprising, scary trip to the metaverse 

      Do virtual reality games show us the promise of the metaverse? And are they a model for life itself?

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      FT SeriesBetween worlds: a metaverse special
      A day at the virtual office

      For some firms, the future of work is already here 

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      FT SeriesBetween worlds: a metaverse special
      What Gucci and others learnt from the metaverse

      The metaverse economy is set to be worth trillions — and the world’s leading fashion brands are experimenting already

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      FT SeriesBetween worlds: a metaverse special
      Metaverse creator Neal Stephenson on the future of virtual reality

      The writer who invented the metaverse concept on why he decided to get involved in building it — and the trouble with AI

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      FT SeriesBetween worlds: a metaverse special
      What is it? Do I want to go? The metaverse explained

      FT tech writers on the questions you were afraid to ask 

    • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
      Anjana Ahuja
      ‘Grief tech’ avatars aim to take the sting out of death

      Personalised chatbots hope to console the bereaved but the ethics remain complicated

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      FT CollectionsTech Exchange
      John Riccitiello: gamers don’t care whether it’s AR or VR — they just want good content

      The Unity Technologies CEO sees artistic creativity as crucial to the success of new platforms

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      European business schools
      Business schools explore teaching in the metaverse

      Institutions are venturing into virtual worlds — both as a subject and a learning tool

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Stephen Bush
      Is it ethical to make — and play — war games?

      The gaming industry and its customers should be prepared to put up with an increased level of moral scrutiny

    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      Pekka Lundmark
      The real future of the metaverse is not for consumers

      The creation of virtual reality ‘digital twins’ will revolutionise the energy transition, emergency planning and medicine

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      FT SeriesTech Champions
      Disguise gives fans a concert experience — from their living rooms

      The company’s ‘extended reality’ technology is becoming a hit with entertainers after giving locked-down audiences a chance to enjoy performances by the likes of Billie Eilish and Katy Perry

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