VR headsets may cost you hundreds of dollars, but a virtual avatar is accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Here's how to get started. Before you create your avatar and enter the ...

The episode is the just latest example of how difficult (and increasingly important) it is to create highly detailed VR avatars, even for a tech giant that has invested heavily in buying and ...

Meta has announced several updates to the avatars ... in third-party virtual reality experiences and other apps. This actually makes a lot of sense. Meta will never be able to create a true ...

Though Microsoft has cut large swathes of its various VR departments over the last year ... offering a new wave of generic-looking, legless avatars for making work meetings a fair bit more ...

Mark Zuckerberg showed off Meta's new photorealistic VR avatars in his first "Metaverse interview." He said Meta plans to integrate them into its apps, but that the technology isn't quite ready yet.

"This is really the most incredible thing I've ever seen," said podcast host Lex Fridman, interviewing Mark Zuckerberg in VR using ... any kind of avatar. It's a fascinating chat, a shocking ...

Apple's Vision Pro headset will let users create ... avatars for Apple's augmented-reality headset appear to be hyper-realistic, a marked difference from some of Meta's early attempts at virtual ...