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Virtual reality & the metaverse

Vox's coverage of virtual reality and the metaverse.

Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse. What does he see next?

By Peter Kafka

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What Meta employees really think about their company’s brutal year

Recode obtained a recording of a Mark Zuckerberg Q&A and internal survey results that show how Meta’s struggles are impacting staff.

By Shirin Ghaffary

The $1,500 ticket to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse

By Shirin Ghaffary

Legs are finally coming to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse

By Shirin Ghaffary

Meta top executive Nick Clegg explains Facebook’s futuristic plans for the metaverse

By Shirin Ghaffary

Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away

By Shirin Ghaffary

Can VR art help us see the real world differently?

By Alissa Wilkinson

Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

By Shirin Ghaffary

Facebook’s freaky new glove

By Adam Clark Estes

Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Facebook is now Meta, but it’s not quite a metamorphosis

By Rebecca Heilweil
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How virtual reality tricks your brain

By Kimberly Mas

How tech companies are trying to make augmented and virtual reality a thing, again

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla

If Congress cancels federal funding for PBS, rural areas will be hurt the most, says CEO Paula Kerger

By Eric Johnson

Laurene Powell Jobs says President Trump’s attacks on the press are “right out of a dictator’s playbook”

By Eric Johnson

How do you preserve art when it was made for people using Netscape Navigator on Windows 98?

By Eric Johnson

What happens to free speech when we all live in a virtual world?

By Kurt Wagner

Why Airbnb will be worth more than Uber

By Eric Johnson

Lauren Goode returns for the final episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: Louie Swisher and his mom do a VR experience and take listener questions

By Recode Staff

Oculus Go, the virtual reality headset Facebook hopes will bring VR to the mainstream, is finally here

By Kurt Wagner

Full transcript: VR researcher Jeremy Bailenson on Recode Decode

By Recode Staff

Here’s what we just learned (and what we still don’t know) about Magic Leap

By Eric Johnson

What Facebook (and many, many others) get wrong about VR

By Eric Johnson

Can VR make us healthier, smarter and less racist?

By Eric Johnson

Walmart has acquired a virtual reality startup as part of its tech makeover

By Jason Del Rey

Facebook’s Oculus boss thinks standalone headsets are the key to getting a billion people into VR

By Kurt Wagner

VR still isn’t mainstream, but Oculus thinks its new $200 headset could fix that

By Kurt Wagner and Rani Molla

Facebook-owned Oculus built another VR headset: The $199 wireless ‘Oculus Go’

By Kurt Wagner

Williams-Sonoma CEO Laura Alber: ‘I do not believe Amazon is killing retailers’

By Johana Bhuiyan

Full transcript: Google VP Clay Bavor answers VR and AR and MR questions on Too Embarrassed to Ask

By Recode Staff

Watch the slightly bizarre trailer for Oculus’ first ‘full-length VR film’

By Kurt Wagner

Here are some of the coolest trailers from Comic-Con 2017 so far

By Tess Townsend

Is the future VR ... or AR?

By Eric Johnson

Facebook is still trying to get people pumped about virtual reality

By Kurt Wagner

YouTube is launching a new format that will let you shoot VR footage in 2-D

By Tess Townsend

Don’t expect a killer VR app from Google anytime soon

By Tess Townsend

How to watch Google I/O 2017 live

By Tess Townsend

Google I/O 2017: Expect a clearer understanding of Google’s ‘AI first’ future

By Tess Townsend

We’re living in a digital world, but analog is making a comeback

By Bob O'Donnell