Tootfinder

The universe does not simply exist in time -- time is something the universe continuously writes into itself https://theconversation.com/is-time-a-fundamental-part-of-reality-a-quiet-revolution-in-physics-suggests-not-273841

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-shopping-ambitio…

OpenAI’s Shopping Ambitions Hit Messy Data Reality
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, ...

Der Aufstieg und Fall von Oculus: Wie Metas VR-Ambitionen einst begannen
Oculus VR prägte die moderne Virtual Reality wie kaum ein anderes Unternehmen und droht jetzt endgültig zu verschwinden. Zeit für einen Rückblick.

Cowboys playoff chances spiral further as new odds paint harsh reality https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-nfl-playoff-chances-spiral-further-new-odds-paint-harsh-reality

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

EMC's Tattle TV launches in the UK, billing itself as Britain's "first dedicated vertical drama app", initially with a pilot reality TV series and MMA drama (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/tattle-tv-uk-micro…

First UK Microdrama App Launches With MMA Drama, ‘Dog Dates’ Reality Show & Desire To Repurpose British Classics For Vertical Video
Tattle TV, a UK microdrama app, has launched with a 'Dog Dates' reality show, 'Tramp' MMA drama and desire to repurpose classic British TV series.

Future Crew Second Reality (1993) ported to Javascript
#Demoscene

For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly killing drug dealers
In his second term, he’s made the fantasy a reality,
killing putative "drug dealers" in a likely illegal airstrike campaign on vessels in international waters.
Yet at the same time, Trump last week pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez,
who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic
💥 hundreds of tons of cocaine💥 into t…

Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise
He's talked about executing drug dealers for a decade.

"These lands weren't empty lands. Even the first small portion was said to be populated by Canaanites. The third claimed area is the lands of
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Making a claim — nicely wrapped in religious language... — to lands that others already occupy is the very essence of settler colonialism"…

😍 Der globale #LNG-Markt verändert sich grundlegend mit direkten Folgen für Australien.
Länder wie #Pakistan, #Indien und

How solar and big batteries are shaping a new global gas market reality – and what it means for Australia
Gas power's business model is disappearing. Solar has cut into daytime operation. Batteries are starting to take the rest. And that's bad news for Australian LNG.

I deeply dislike AI.
It does seem like the "nobody wants AI" crowd needs to update their world view be cause it seems like the reality is "a vocal minority doesn't want AI".
Pretending like most people are anti AI just doesn't map IMHO. I don't know what % want AI but a large % just want things that work. It just so happens generally AI doesn't work but some times it does work and people are fine with it, which is sad.
so do whatever you …

Falls #Hubert mit dem Verband am Arm ein #Blutzuckermessgerät schützt, müsse dann nicht eine kleine "Beule" vom Gerät zu sehen sein?

Trump beschreibt die Festnahme von Maduro „wie eine Fernsehsendung“ – als wäre Geopolitik ein Reality-Format, nicht ein völkerrechtlicher Tiefpunkt. Diese Entkopplung von Realität und Verantwortung ist bezeichnend für seine Selbstwahrnehmung. FAZ-Autor Niklas Maak seziert das wie einen Spiegel der Trump-Ära.
#Trump

Maduro-Festnahme: Hält Donald Trump die Realität für eine Fernsehserie?
Donald Trump will die Festnahme Maduros „wie eine Fernsehserie“ voller Action gesehen haben. Dabei entstanden vielsagende Pressebilder. Ein Blick auf die Ikonographie des Präsidenten.

Separating Reality From Fiction: Maxx Crosby’s Situation With the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-separating-reality-from-fiction-maxx-crosby-situation

Life Inside The Salad Bowl
This is a space for honest conversations about navigating reality, celebrating recovery, and finding light after darkness...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/life-inside-the-salad-bowl/…

It's not Tr𑢸mpforce Economist, it's Tr𑢸mp's secret police force but I guess misleading names are more fun than reality :-)

When #Documentation Lies: Detecting Drift Between Code and Reality
https://hackernoon.com/when-documentation-lies-detecting-drift-between-code-and-real…

Cracks in the MAGA - Likud Collusion to Hasten End Times Reality
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/cracks-collusion-reality.html

Leaked memos: Meta delays the release of its MR glasses codenamed "Phoenix" from H2 2026 to H1 2027 to give Meta "more breathing room to get the details right" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-delay

Meta delays release of new mixed reality glasses code-named 'Phoenix' in order to 'get the details right'
Meta plans to release a new wearable device codenamed "Malibu 2" in 2026, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@xjki/116035203137010517
Alternative reality: Cambrian explosion of the tech people that got laid off ‘22-‘24 getting past the very real shock & crisis of losing their job, and starting companies & side projects to out-comp…

"How can this mess be resolved?
Before it can be resolved at all, it seems to me, first must come repentance. Repentance, yes, for the sins of terrorism which have been perpetrated on both sides, but repentance first for the sin of Abraham.
What is the sin of Abraham?
Thou shat not steal
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house"
#Blasphemy

The 2026 Contract Reality: George Pickens vs. CeeDee Lamb https://insidethestar.com/the-2026-contract-reality-george-pickens-vs-ceedee-lamb

Mike Tomlin under fire? Here's the reality behind the curtain in Pittsburgh

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-mike-tomlin-hot-seat-could-he-be-fir…

Unter 100 Gramm: Neuer Chip ermöglicht besonders leichte VR-Brillen
Ein neuer Spezialchip erlaubt es, den Hauptprozessor auszulagern und ebnet so den Weg für besonders leichte Mixed-Reality-Brillen.
http…

This time of year is for the pleasant world-building task of (re-)imagining syllabuses for next term. Since I'm now in charge of the program, I'm also currently working on the whole curriculum for the academic year beginning in May - it's like syllabus composition turned up to 11. Living in the time before ideas become reality is both fantastic - no inconvenient truths or anyone causing trouble - and sterile (for basically the same reasons). Can't wait to see how my plans fal…

The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality Literature (Re-CFP)
https://ift.tt/kdTjeXA
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:49pmfull name / name of organization: Palgrave…
via Input 4 RELCFP …

DHS Is Lying To You https://www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying-to-you-about-ice-shooting-a-woman/

New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record #Hawaii

New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record
In 2025, Hawaiʻi experienced its second-driest year in more than a century, alongside persistently above-average temperatures throughout the year—a stark reality detailed in the inaugural Hawai'i Annual Climate Report 2025. Published by the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, this first-of-its-kind report uses plain language, along with easy-to-interpret maps and figures, to summarize statewide rainfall, temperature, and drought conditions over the past year.

Beim WDR gibts die Klima App. Unterhalte dich (virtuell) persönlich mit den Opfern aus dem Ahrtal. Erlebe mit Augmented Reality den brennenden Schwarzwald (der hieß schon vorher so). Der Klimawandel interaktiv, inklusiv, barrierefrei in TechniColor.
@… @…

Beim WDR gibts die Klima App. Unterhalte dich (virtuell) persönlich mit den Opfern aus dem Ahrtal. Erlebe mit Augmented Reality den brennenden Schwarzwald (der hieß schon vorher so). Der Klimawandel interaktiv, inklusiv, barrierefrei in TechniColor.
@… @…

"This is the heart of the tragedy. They are all one people, literally one family; cousins. The hatred, the contempt, and now the genocide, arise out of the claim by some to be uniquely their mutual god's chosen people, to be sole inheritors of their common patrimony.
This is the ultimate evidence of blasphemy.
By their fruits shall ye know them."
#Palestine

Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon
Hosted by the Sensemaking Scenius and featuring @erlend.sh, an online video gathering Dec 3rd
https://smokesignal.events/did:plc:ad5bwszsc5m5jpj2sfa6uzjk/3m62suufa7y2j

Gives the tragedy of the Russian aggression of Ukraine its full depth. :-(

"“AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that’s masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests”. That darker reality is that the economy is already screwed."
(Original title: The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake)
https://pivot…

The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake
Both of these statements are true: Across the whole US economy, there’s not really a visible effect of AI on hiring and job mix; Some sectors are absolutely devastated directly by AI. But als…

"The hidden carbon cost of reality TV shows like The Traitors"
#TV #Media #Emissions

The hidden carbon cost of reality TV shows like The Traitors
Reality TV isn’t the villain of the climate story – but it is a powerful amplifier of taste.

Are artificial retinas merely an approach to recover sight, or are they a tool of augmented reality beyond natural eyes in blind people? https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/advpub/0/advpub_2025.01341/_article

Are artificial retinas merely an approach to recover sight, or are they a tool of augmented reality beyond natural eyes in blind people?
Implantable artificial retinas have been a considerable technology to help blind people recover their sight. This topic has attracted increasing atten …

"...'fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not
matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality
and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his
fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the
world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon
reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles
as …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Wednesday:
🎵 Reality TV Argument Bleeds
#NowPlaying #Wednesday
https://wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/track/reality-tv-argument-bleeds
https://open.spotify.com/track/50RLmAQv8YOGDi5iexOjH3

War against reality: how the Kremlin zombifies its own society for aggression!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/war-against-reality-how-the.html

"Liberal commentators are very eager to accuse the left of obsessing — and falling out — over things which, in reality, don't seem to the liberals to matter very much. They have a phrase for this: 'the narcissism of small differences.' Well, OK, we on the left do fall out over things which, seen from outside our spectrum, may seem trivial... But... let us, please, consider for the moment the beam in our brother's eye."

The Narcissism of Small Differences

Five years ago today,
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power
after losing a free and fair election.
January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand
— it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.
Marking this anniversary is not just about remembering the past.
It’s about confronting the dangerous reality of the present.

MAFS69
Join two reality TV queens, entrepreneurs and chronic over-sharers each week as they tackle the deep stuff...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mafs69/

Zehn Jahre Virtual Reality: Diese Prognosen gingen in Erfüllung
Der VR-Pionier Jesse Schell prophezeite 2015, wo Virtual Reality 2025 stehen würde. Hatte er mit seinen Prognosen recht?
https://www.

The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnesota-julie-le-show-cause-transcript
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p2#a260205p2

Meta reports Reality Labs Q4 revenue of $955M vs. $940.8M est. and a $6.02B operating loss vs. $5.67B est.; Reality Labs now has $75B in losses since late 2020 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/metas-reality-labs-pos…

Meta’s Reality Labs posts $6.02 billion loss in fourth quarter
Meta’s Reality Labs posts $6.02 billion loss in fourth quarter.

I'm starting to see an annoying return of "do something, Democrats!"
Do what exactly?
The Republican Party holds the House, the Senate, the White House, and SCOTUS.
You're mocking the Democratic Party for a resolution against Venezuela "War Powers" as merely symbolic. Welcome to reality. Symbolic gestures are one of the only tools with a rogue President and a Republican Party that won't impeach.

In case y’all need a little pick-me-up amidst the dreadful reality of this week:
#cat #positiveVibes #catsofmastodon #catPhoto

Manipulating voters:
"AI models needn’t be more powerful, more personalized, or more skilled in advanced rhetorical techniques to be more convincing. Instead, chatbots were most effective when they threw fact-like claims at the user; the most persuasive AI models were those that provided the most “evidence” in support of their argument, regardless of whether that evidence had any bearing on reality. In fact, the most persuasive chatbots were also the least accurate."

The $200K #Developer Dream Is Over — Here's the Reality in 2026
https://medium.com/@sovannaro/the-200k-developer-dream-is-over-heres-the-…

While the world debates climate action, Chinese cities are already doing it.
Shenzhen leads with massive EV adoption and vehicle-to-grid tech. Wuhan built "sponge cities" that absorb floodwater naturally. Dalian is scaling hydrogen energy. Guangzhou and Qingdao are tackling food waste and carbon management.
These aren't pilot programs—they're blueprints other cities can follow.

The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality Literature (Re-CFP)
https://ift.tt/kdTjeXA
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:49pmfull name / name of organization: Palgrave…
via Input 4 RELCFP …

The Chevy Chase documentary really gets details wrong about his time and firing from Community.
It claims that Chevy refused to return to Community without Dan Harmon. In reality Dan was fired at the end of season 3 while Chevy kept going until he got fired during season four.
It also claims that Chevy was angry about some lines Dan wrote for him when he had the outburst that got him fired. Dan simply wasn't there.
Outside the doc I've seen him quoted as having been…

A particularly bad kind of trolls are the "concern" trolls. These are the kind of people who say "well, yes, I fully agree that freezing to death is bad and we definitely should do something about it, but I would really like to make sure that we fully evaluated the danger of people burning themselves on a hot heater".
(Simplified. In reality, it's usually a long essay, followed by even more tiring debate.)
#FreeSoftware

Sometimes reality is boggling.
I met the real Trader Joe several times in the 1970s. His stores back then were mostly wine shops.
It is hard to map from the Trader Joe that I met and the stores I used back then to today's stores.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kyra Khaldi:
🎵 Reality
#KyraKhaldi
https://kyrakhaldi.bandcamp.com/album/reality
https://open.spotify.com/track/7D1nrITlXvSb72oeFqunsy

The Reality of the Raiders' Quarterback Situation https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-reality-quarterback-situation

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

300,000 AI-Animated Poses in an Instant: My Visit to Disney and the New Reality for Cartoons
Disney checked out "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.

Mystery meat and maggot-infested produce: the disturbing reality of US prison food | US prisons | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/eating-behind-bars-book-prison-food

On third-and-17, the Seahawks and reality hit the 49ers defense hard https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6938840/2026/01/04/san-francisco-49ers-defense-seahawks-third-and-17-playoffs/

One of the nice things about Mastodon is being able to filter things out from specific areas.
Things like GoFundMe are allowed in many instances; however, I don't really care to see them, so I filtered them out. The reality is I have enough problems with my family and #veds, and me with #longcovid

Ultraschall statt Kamera: LLMs erkennen Gesten zur Steuerung in Virtual Reality
Forscher wollen herkömmliches Tracking in Virtual Reality und Augmented Reality mit einer Kombination aus Schallwellenmessung und LLMs ersetzen.

424-word hot take: “You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone”
#accessibility

You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone
This post’s title is unpleasant, but it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies. Even purpose-built assistive tech. Broadly, when someone says something is “accessible” that’s a hopeful statement that is based on some best efforts. Of course, there are bad actors who assert…

Ach ja, damals, als "das Metaverse" die Zukunft war und ich gescholten wurde, weil ich es für Bullshit hielt...
(Original title: Reality Labs: Meta streicht jede zehnte Stelle in der Metaverse-Sparte)
https://www.golem.de/news/reality-labs-…

Reality Labs: Meta streicht jede zehnte Stelle in der Metaverse-Sparte - Golem.de
Meta verschiebt Prioritäten: Während Mark Zuckerberg Milliarden in KI pumpt, muss die Reality Labs Division massiv Personal abbauen.

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Mark Zuckerberg announces a new creative studio in Meta's Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who will be joined by Apple design lead Billy Sorrentino (Mark Zuckerberg/@zuck@threads.com)
https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DR0Wsy0EhCP

Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
Today we're establishing a new creative studio in Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who has spent nearly 20 years leading design at Apple.

Crypto promoters saw Trump as their savior. Then reality set in
“Bitcoin and other crypto assets are once again demonstrating that they are among some of the first assets to decline among broader economic uncertainty,” the indispensable crypto observer Molly White wrote in March
ht…

Hiltzik: Despite Trump, it's a bad year for crypto
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto. So why are crypto prices plummeting?

Visual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: the TTC-AMD study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0337549

Visual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: The TTC-AMD study
Little is known about whether and to what degree people with different amounts of visual impairment rely on hearing instead of vision for mobility, particularly in judgments of collision. We measured how much importance was assigned to visual and auditory cues during time-to-collision judgments made by people with age-related macular degeneration (Impaired Vision Group; IV) compared to a control group without age-related macular degeneration (Normal Vision Group; NV). A virtual reality system s…

World enters 'era of global water bankruptcy': UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions https://phys.org/news/2026-01-world-era-global-bankruptcy-scientists.html
UN report declares global state of 'water bankruptcy…

World enters 'era of global water bankruptcy': UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions
Amid chronic groundwater depletion, water overallocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, all compounded by global heating, a UN report today declared the dawn of an era of global water bankruptcy, inviting world leaders to facilitate "honest, science-based adaptation to a new reality."

why agents DO NOT write most of our code - a reality check
#AI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
DJ Paradise:
🎵 Reality Beat
#DJParadise
https://bblisss.bandcamp.com/track/reality-beat-ft-zoe-darsee

Cowboys crash back to reality, thumped on road again as Lions win, 44-30 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/04/cowboys-revert-to-roadkill-lose-to-lions-44-30/87616828007/

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

300,000 AI-Animated Poses in an Instant: My Visit to Disney and the New Reality for Cartoons
Disney checked out "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp that renamed itself in the Metaverse craze less than five years ago, is reducing its Metaverse activity by 10% and laying off some 1500 employees.
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-reportedly-laying-off-over-10…

Die zehn besten Spiele aus zehn Jahren VR
Im Jahr 2016 starteten Oculus Rift, HTC Vive und PS VR eine neue VR-Ära. Wir küren die zehn wichtigsten modernen Spiele-Klassiker in Virtual Reality.
https://www.

Crypto promoters saw Trump as their savior. Then reality set in
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto...
So why are crypto prices plummeting?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-28/the-crypt…

Hiltzik: Despite Trump, it's a bad year for crypto
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto. So why are crypto prices plummeting?

Arm CEO Rene Haas says investor fears about AI hurting software companies are a "micro-hysteria" that exceeds the reality of how businesses use AI tools (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/39aa0fd6-957e-48a5-bb91-d503ed441ff6

„Fallout Shelter“: Amazon macht „Fallout“ zur Reality-Serie ​ ​
Amazons „Fallout“-Serie ist ein Hit. Nun ist eine Reality-Serie in Planung: In „Fallout Shelter“ müssen sich Show-Teilnehmer in einem Vault duellieren.

Raiders’ Carroll stays optimistic, but reality might be setting in https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-carroll-stays-optimistic-but-reality-might-be-setting-in-3585926/

Reality of Key Cowboys Coach Being Poached From Staff Getting Closer https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/reality-key-dallas-cowboys-coach-poached-staff-getting-closer

(14 years ago, in 2011) Building the bionic eye: an emerging reality and opportunity https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3326660/ "blind individuals will continue to benefit from the use of sensory substitution devices";

Building the Bionic Eye: An Emerging Reality and Opportunity
Once the topic of folklore and science fiction, the notion of restoring vision to the blind is now approaching a tractable reality. Technological advances have inspired numerous multidisciplinary groups worldwide to develop visual neuroprosthetic ...

Nexus NX1: Neue Ganzkörpersteuerung für humanoide Roboter und Virtual Reality
Handschuhe, Laufband, Schuhe und VR-Brille: Mit dem Komplettpaket "Nexus NX1" sollen Avatare in Virtual Reality und humanoide Roboter gesteuert werden können.

Meta's decision to deprioritize VR in favor of AI and internet-connected glasses has chilled the VR industry, leading to concerns about its future (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/24/metas-reality-labs-cuts-sparked-fears-of-a-v…

Meta's Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a 'VR winter'
Meta's deprioritizing virtual reality in favor of artificial intelligence and Internet-connected smart glasses raised concerns about the future of the industry.

After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform,
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of the final nails into the coffin of its metaverse efforts
— the ones that were once so central to its vision that it renamed the entire company after them.
This week, the Wall Street Journalreported Meta was laying off some 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division,
-- the department working on Meta’s virtual reality products.
As part of the …

Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails
The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.

Laser Limbo: Deutsches Mixed-Reality-Spiel für Meta Quest
"Laser Limbo" gehört zu den frühesten Mixed-Reality-Titeln für Meta Quest. Das für lokalen Multiplayer ausgelegte Spiel feiert heute sein Release.

The Reality Facing the Raiders As Losing Streak Continues https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-reality-facing-losing-streak-continues

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has planned to ask a judge to release her from federal prison, citing concerns over her safety if the Jeffrey Epstein files and grand jury records are released.
Arick Fudali, who represents several Epstein survivors, told MS NOW on Thursday that he hopes Maxwell remains behind bars and called her "entitled" and that she lives in an "alternate reality."
"I certainly don't know of any grounds that would allow a …

'Shut up': Attorney buries Ghislaine Maxwell over 'appalling' new request
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has planned to ask a judge to release her from federal prison, citing concerns over her safety if the Jeffrey Epstein files and grand jury records are released. Arick Fudali, who represents several Epstein survivors, told MS NOW on Thursday that he hopes Ma...

Sources: Meta does not plan to abandon building the metaverse, and expects to shift the savings from the layoffs into investments in its AR glasses (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/meta-cuts-metaverse-unit.html

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

Die besten VR-Spiele im Dezember 2025: Thief VR, Men in Black und ein Geheimtipp
Der Dezember bringt mit „Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow“, „Men in Black: Most Wanted“ und „Out of Sight VR“ gleich mehrere bekannte Marken in die Virtual Reality.

As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861420/meta-reality-la…

Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
Meta’s Reality Labs layoffs include shutting down some of its VR studios, according to employees affected by the cuts.

TeamViewer-AR beschleunigt Prüfaufbauten bei Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1
Das Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team nutzt die Augmented-Reality-Software Frontline von TeamViewer, um Prüfstände schnell und präzise zu montieren.

Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/technology/meta-layoffs-reality-labs.html

Meta Plans to Cut 10% to 15% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta’s work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence.

Riechen für mehr Immersion: „Escents“ bringt Gerüche in die Virtual Reality
Das tragbare Gerät „Escents“ will Gerüche in VR und AR einbinden und setzt dabei auf magnetische Duftkapseln, Bluetooth-Anbindung und Unity-Unterstützung.

Steam Frame: Was kann die VR-Brille bewirken?
Steam Frame ist eine ambitionierte VR-Brille, die sich gängigen Kategorien entzieht und deren eigentliche Bedeutung über Virtual Reality hinausreicht.
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Nach Metas Kurswechsel: So geht es weiter mit dem Metaverse
Reality-Labs-Chef Andrew Bosworth sprach diese Woche zum ersten Mal über die Einschnitte in der VR-Sparte und erläuterte Metas neuen Metaverse-Kurs.

Anthropic researchers detail "disempowerment patterns" in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/how-often-do-ai-chat…

How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path?
Anthropic's latest paper on "user disempowerment" has some troubling findings.

VR-Brillen der 90er und 2000er: Ohne sie gäbe es heute keine Meta Quest
Virtual Reality wie wir sie heute kennen, hat einen langen Weg hinter sich. Wir blicken zurück auf eine Ära des Scheiterns und des Lernens.

Der 90er-Jahre-Hit "Men in Black" kehrt als VR-Spiel zurück
Sony bringt die "Men in Black" in die Virtual Reality – mit neuer Story, neuen Aliens und klassischen Waffen.
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