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Meta reports 11% revenue growth, but the metaverse still suffers

Meta had one of its best quarters since before it changed its name from Facebook. The company reported 11% year-over-year revenue growth, which is a sigh of relief for investors, because this time las...

First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it's good.

After a roughly 30 minute demo that ran through the major features that are yet ready to test I came away convinced that Apple has delivered nothing less than a genuine leapfrog in capability and exec...

Apple is going out of its way to make sure Vision Pro doesn't look dorky

A few hours after Apple's long-awaited Vision Pro reveal yesterday, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman (who managed to report on most of the device's major features months before it launched) noticed something o...

Apple acquires Mira, a startup building lightweight AR hardware

Apple has acquired Mira, an augmented reality (AR) headset startup, for an undisclosed amount, according to The Verge.Founded by entrepreneur Ben Taft in 2016 and based in Los Angeles, Mira has been m...

Apple's Mixed-Reality Headset, Vision Pro, Is Here

[photo1]Lauren GoodeApple finally unveiled its plans for a mixed-reality wearable computer today at WWDC, its annual software conference. [photo2]The headset, named Apple Vision Pro, has been in the w...

Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2023

[photo1]Julian Chokkattu Boone Ashworth Adrienne SoApple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference today. The big news, of course, is that Apple's long-awaited mixed reality headset finally...

Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2023

This year's WWDC is one for the history books. Apple made is usual software announcements, introducing iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, and watchOS 10, and even introduced the largest MacBook Air yet....

Apple Vision Pro: Here's everything you need to know

Today at its annual WWDC 2023 conference, Apple took the wraps off the Vision Pro, its long-rumored augmented reality (AR) headset. The Vision Pro is one of Apple's most ambitious products to date -- ...

Apple reveals Vision Pro, available for $3,499 "early next year"

CUPERTINO, Calif.--After years of speculation, leaks, rumors, setbacks, and rumblings of amazing behind-the-scenes demos, Apple has made its plans for a mixed reality platform and headset public. Visi...

What to Expect at Apple's WWDC 2023

[photo1]Brenda Stolyarapple is secretive. The company is known for staying super tight-lipped around upcoming product launches. But we can always rely on the annual Worldwide Developers Conference--wh...

Liveblog: All the news from Apple's WWDC 2023 keynote

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Meta Announces a New Quest Headset, Because Apple

[photo1]Lauren Goode Michael CaloreIf you're in the business of selling VR or mixed reality headsets, the time to announce your new product is ... now. Especially if you're Meta.This morning the compa...

The biggest announcements from Meta's Quest Gaming Showcase

Meta has just wrapped its latest Quest Gaming Showcase, where it previewed a bunch of virtual reality games coming to its Quest headsets. This year could prove to be an important one for Meta in gamin...

This Week in Apps: ChatGPT comes to iPhone, Bing AI efforts expand, Instagram's Twitter clone

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as co...

Researchers hope this tiny wearable could become Smell-o-Vision for VR

Smells have always been hard to recreate in virtual reality, but researchers may have figured out a solution: wearable odor generators.Researchers from Beihang University and the City University of Ho...

Report: 15-inch MacBook Air coming at WWDC, new Mac Studios will arrive eventually

We're generally fans of Apple's now-year-old Mac Studio desktop--and skeptical about its now-year-late Apple Silicon Mac Pro refresh. The Studio addresses many of the needs of the Mac Pro's intended a...

Report: Tim Cook overruled Apple design team's request to delay XR headset

A new report in the Financial Times claims that Apple CEO Tim Cook and COO Jeff Williams overrode design team objections to move forward with a new mixed-reality headset before designers believed the ...

Meta's hardware plans include thinner Quest this year, ad-supported AR in 2027

The next Meta Quest headset, planned for launch this year, will be thinner, twice as powerful, and slightly more expensive than the Quest 2. That's according to a leaked internal hardware roadmap pres...

PSVR 2 review: love on a leash

Sony's first virtual reality headset, the 2016 PlayStation VR, wasn't exactly state-of-the-art. Engineers had to retrofit the PlayStation 4 with a converter box to send its graphics to a 1080p smartph...