In this video, I explore my experience as a store clerk in real life and transition to a virtual reality setting through Job ...

Google-owned XR studio Owlchemy Labs announced that its breakout VR hit Job Simulator (2016) has now surpassed six million installs. Job Simulator has been one of the most successful VR games over the ...

NASA is considering using the popular benchmarking tool CapFrameX to measure the frame rate of its new cockpit simulator systems. These hand-built systems are designed to emulate the latest supersonic ...

Meta's deprioritizing virtual reality in favor of artificial intelligence and Internet-connected smart glasses has chilled the VR industry. "The market has spoken," said Jitesh Ubrani, an analyst for ...

Electrical line workers put their lives on the line when they go out to restore power after storms and when the wires get disconnected. As parts of South Carolina face the looming threat of snow and ...

Meta has laid off about 100 people in Austin and is shutting down three area gaming studios amid broader cuts to its virtual reality division. “This is part of that effort, and we plan to reinvest the ...

Workers with college degrees in philosophy and other humanities will have a hard time finding jobs as artificial intelligence takes over the US economy, Palantir CEO Alex Karp cautioned Tuesday. Karp ...

Meta's Reality Labs division, long the epicenter of its metaverse ambitions, has now claimed over $73 billion in losses since late 2020, prompting a sweeping overhaul that eliminated more than 1,000 ...

Just over four years after Facebook changed its name to Meta, the company is scaling back its virtual reality ambitions. Meta is cutting about 10% of staff who focus on metaverse-related VR projects ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company’s Reality Labs division, part of a plan to redirect resources from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI ...

The Meta Quest 3 VR goggles and controllers are shown sitting on a wooden tabletop with blue walls and a white door in the background. (Engadget) The news isn’t too surprising. Reality Labs has lost ...

The first Big Tech layoffs of 2026 have happened. This week, Facebook owner Meta Platforms informed employees that up to 1,500 positions in its Reality Labs division would be eliminated. Here’s what ...