Can a Game Change Lives?
More than one third of the world's population plays video games. The Games for Change Festival spotlights how games can be a force for good.
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Is The Metaverse Really Our Near Future?
Facebook was designed to make real connections, under your real name, with other people. Now it invites us to leave the real world and escape into a construct of its own invention.
Jaron Lanier on Facebook and the Creepy Possibilities for Virtual Reality
When Facebook announced last week that it had agreed to acquire Oculus VR, “the leader in virtual reality technology,” for $2 billion, techies and journalists everywhere wondered: What does Jaron Lanier think of this? Lanier,...
From Messaging to Gaming, Mark Zuckerberg Is Buying
Just five weeks after acquiring mobile messaging app WhatsApp (for a whopping $19 billion), Facebook announced Tuesday it plans to buy Oculus, the virtual reality headset startup that's been the talk of the town—the gaming...
Surround Computing Is About to Change Our Lives
Computing is in upheaval. After 40 years of microprocessor improvement, an even more fundamental advance is underway, with enormous implications for how we will live. We are uniting traditional central processing units (CPUs), the "brains"...
