Hologram Voicemails Are Here Thanks To Asynchronous Reality
Mute the real world and revisit interactions you may have missed using this mind-bending technology. Have you ever had one of those days where you needed...
Meta Built A Chip To Help Run Photorealistic Avatars On Standalone Headsets
Meta researchers built a custom chip to make photoreal avatars possible on standalone headsets. Facebook first showed off work on ‘Codec Avatars’ back in March 2019. Powered...
The Fall of Roe Would Put Big Tech in a Bind
In April 2017, Latice Fisher, a woman from Mississippi, arrived at a hospital suffering from a miscarriage. She was later indicted on a charge of second-degree...
Kat VR’s New VR Treadmill Promises More Bang For Your Buck
Switchable Vehicle Simulation Modes transform the company’s VR treadmill into a vehicle and cockpit simulator. KAT VR yesterday announced two new additions to its lineup of...
Apple Has Lost Its Soul. But Who Cares?
When Jobs died, the big question surrounding Cook was whether he could nurture a product as groundbreaking as the iPod, the iPhone, or the iPad. In...
Uber and Lyft Drivers Must Now Set Their Own Mask Rules
As pandemic safety measures have lifted in the US, ride-hailing drivers risk deactivation for imposing their own mask rules. Nearly two weeks ago, Uber and Lyft...
Dall-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See
Upon release of GPT-2 in February 2019, OpenAI adopted a staggered approach to the release of the largest form of the model on the claim that...
Mouth Haptics Let You Kiss, Smoke, And Eat Spiders In VR
Has technology gone too far? Researchers working for Carnegie Melon University’s Future Interfaces Group have developed a new haptic feedback device that utilizes ultrasonic transducers to...
The Crypto Industry Is Getting Too Honest
There’s a commercial for the cryptocurrency-trading platform FTX that has been airing throughout the NBA playoffs. It features superstar Steph Curry going through a goofy version...