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  • The New VR Arms Race: Kids vs Parents

    The New VR Arms Race: Kids vs Parents

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    2–3 minutes

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    Kids are gonna have cybersex, and parents won’t like that General-purpose VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are so expensive and fragile that we haven’t yet had to worry about how it’ll affect kids. VR is still like the PalmPilot PDA in 1997, an expensive curiosity for just a million enthusiasts. It has…

  • Through an iPhone, Squinting

    Through an iPhone, Squinting

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    3–4 minutes

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    If you want a vision of the future, imagine your arm holding up your iPhone — forever It has been truly delightful to see all the imaginative augmented reality prototypes made by developers playing around with Apple’s new ARKit framework. It’s only been available for a couple of months, but developers have already gone to town with…

  • Disney’s Giant Leap Forward

    Disney’s Giant Leap Forward

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    3–5 minutes

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    When Disney surveyed the public about a hypothetical immersive Star Wars hotel early this year, it felt like an idea from the future, not an actual commitment. Surely they’d wait until after the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — already a highly ambitious and risky new park area — before starting work on a whole new hotel? But…