A student interacts with others in virtual reality (iStock). WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Can virtual reality (VR) avatars foster meaningful human connections as effectively as that of other online ...

"This is really the most incredible thing I've ever seen," said podcast host Lex Fridman, interviewing Mark Zuckerberg in VR using Meta's stunning new photorealistic avatars, coming soon to Quest, so ...

The Firefox developer wants to marry web browsers to virtual reality and augmented reality with technology called WebVR and WebXR. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

VR Chat, the virtual reality social application, has been used to deliver one of the first university lectures through virtual reality. We talk to developer Jesse Joudrey about the project. Despite my ...

Facebook says it is developing the next step in the future of communication with a new virtual reality platform that creates life-like replicas of real people. But it involves the mass collection of ...

One of the most fun parts of using the Oculus Rift is almost hidden in plain sight, and it's called Oculus Avatars. The company rolled out fully customizable Avatars last week, but amid all the ...

While yesterday's Oculus announcement centered mostly around VR hardware and games, the company also rolled out a few new features that'll let you socialize with the rest of your Rift-owning pals.

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The fusion of Oculus and Facebook continues apace at this year's sixth annual Oculus Connect conference, with this year's biggest example coming in the form of Facebook Horizon: a new ...