By “All the XR” at CES we mean “all the XR we personally saw,” which was a lot, but even walking 23 miles in four days, it’s impossible to see everything. I didn’t even make it to Eureka Park, where many XR companies were located. The scale of this show…

I’m like a deer in the headlights. I never know what to get them. Then it starts to be late. Choices dwindle. So this year, I made a list and checked it thrice. (1) Quest 2 VR I’d put the Quest 2 VR (virtual reality) headset in my #1 position…

Meta Reality Labs posted a $3.67 billion Q3 operating loss last month, citing slowing sales for the Quest 2. We shall see what happens this Christmas, but the market for consumer VR may be saturated. Sony’s original PlaystationVR quickly sold five million units after its launch in 2016. Then sales…

When I first spoke to Daniel Robinson three years ago, in the fall of 2019, he and his co-founder Glenn Snyder had just gotten their first development grant from AFWERX, the US Air Force technology incubator, to create an AR system capable of creating virtual adversaries enabling fighter pilots in…

The 250,000 troops conscripted by Putin are not there to fight, they are there to occupy, and Putin has good reason to think they will, and soon, before winter. Putin’s Army is already empting Kherson of civilians, after which they will evacuate their forces. As the triumphant Ukrainian army rolls…

Linden Lab announced the spin off of its proprietary finance engine Tilia this morning. …

I read my preview copy of Matthew Ball’s new book about The Metaverse with great relish. It is an instant classic in the burgeoning field of Metaverse Studies. Ball has set himself a monumental task. In order to explain the Metaverse, he has to explain the history of the personal…

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a blockchain based method of making financial transactions. Unlike a bank, which pays the consumer interest for deposits, which it uses to make loans at a slightly higher rate, a DeFi transaction is mediated by a protocol, not a middleman who gets additional fees for services…

I wrote Charlie Fink’s Metaverse in 2017. It was “An AR-enabled Guide to VR and AR,” so in this context I was using the Metaverse as a metaphor for the connection of everything in immersive tech, which the book seeks to explain. People liked the title, and the book did…