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Augmented reality

July 2024

  • Alastair Whatley in The Importance of Being Oscar.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more

    This month’s picks include a Starlight Express intro for kids, a rollicking wedding play at the National and an explosive hour of dance

February 2024

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    I tried out an Apple Vision Pro. It frightened me

    Arwa Mahdawi
    The new ‘mixed-reality’ headset gave me a glimpse of the future – and I’m not sure it’s a future we should want

January 2024

  • The Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed in a showroom on the Apple campus after it's unveiling on 5 June 2023.

    Apple Vision Pro reviews roundup: stunning potential with big trade-offs

    Early reviews of cutting-edge headset suggest it is packed with sci-fi tech and interesting ideas but is far from perfect

June 2023

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the Apple Vision Pro.

    Apple’s Vision Pro VR is incredible technology but is it useful?

  • A model wears the new Apple Vision Pro.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Is Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro more than just another tech toy for the rich?

May 2023

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook at the 2020 Apple worldwide developers’ conference.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Will Apple’s new VR headset be the one to finally catch on?

  • Peridot screenshot

    The next Tamagotchi? Meet Peridot, the AR pet app from the makers of Pokémon Go

December 2022

  • Meta Zuckerberg avatar illustration

    ‘The metaverse will be our slow death!’ Is Facebook losing its $100bn gamble on virtual reality?

    The company now known as Meta has spent staggering amounts on creating an immersive successor to the traditional 2D internet. But what has it got to show for it, apart from 11,000 job losses?

September 2022

  • Bumper cars with VR headsets, at the IAAPA expo in London

    ‘Each guest experience will be different’: VR and the future of theme parks

    Expo in east London shows how important augmented and virtual reality will be, as attractions move with the times

July 2022

  • A visitor tries the Oculus Quest virtual reality headset at the Facebook F8 developers’ conference in California in 2019.

    Exit the internet, enter the metaverse – your online future is in 3D

    Venture capitalist Matthew Ball’s new book explores the three-dimensional virtual world that is set to supersede the net. What might this alternative digital reality have in store for users?

June 2022

  • Nreal Air review mixed reality sunglasses seen from the front resting on table.

    Nreal Air review: new augmented reality specs put a big screen in your view

  • An Apple logo hangs above the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York City.

    Augmented eyes on Apple at developer conference

April 2022

  • Evan Spiegel

    Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel dismisses Facebook’s metaverse as ‘hypothetical’

  • Jasmin Vardimon x Alice in VR Wonderland

    ‘Two years ago it was impossible’: how tech turns dance into a multisensory fantasy

March 2022

  • The late campaigner Olive Morris appears in London’s Windrush Square in the StoryTrails app.

    Into the metaverse: my plan to level up Britain – with the 3D internet and a Blackpool ‘queercoaster’

    From a dome celebrating smog-free Sheffield to a rollercoaster ride through Blackpool’s LGBTQ+ past, presenter and historian David Olusoga reveals how cutting edge tech can show us a new Britain

February 2022

  • Tukwini Mandela with app in Trafalgar Square, London

    App reveals hidden stories of black Britons in Trafalgar Square

  • A visitor to the Serpentine North Gallery uses the Acute Art app to display augmented reality art by Kaws.

    Kaws: New Fiction review – an art show where you brush shoulders with virtual visitors

January 2022

  • Acqua Alta by Adrien M and Claire B.

    Manipulate festival review – a wealth of delights for the imagination

    Magical AR miniatures and a dream-like circus drama are among the impressive productions opening this celebration of visually led theatre
  • Mark Zuckerberg

    Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building the world’s fastest AI supercomputer

    Facebook founder’s planned metaverse, blending reality with digital experiences, will require enormous computing power
  • Illustration of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard game characters

    Microsoft’s Activision merger faces real-world barriers to metaverse mission

    Suspicious US regulators and a problematic culture at the video game firm need to be overcome to realise AR vision
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