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Apple's new Vision Pro virtual reality headset is displayed during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on June 5, 2023. (Josh Edelson / AFP)
June 6, 2023, 6:46 am
Apple unveils Vision Pro, its $3,500 mixed reality headset
Release is most significant product launch by iPhone maker since Apple Watch in 2015, challenges Meta in market still dominated by gamers, tech enthusiasts
By Glenn Chapman
David Saranga, Director of the Digital Diplomacy Bureau at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, delivers a message in Farsi. (Courtesy/Twitter)
March 26, 2023, 7:12 pm
The next frontier: Israel taps AI and metaverse for aid in digital diplomacy
Speaking in many tongues with the aid of a Tel Aviv startup, the Foreign Ministry is boldly venturing into the virtual realm to get its messages across to friends and foes
By Ethan Freedman
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The city of Yokohama (Courtesy)
March 19, 2023, 9:17 am
Yokohama transforms into a tech innovation hub of East Asia
The city aims to attract foreign talent in technology and research to become a powerhouse beyond Japan’s shores
By Todd Fong
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Experts and entrepreneurs discussed the business potential of the next big step in online technology at OurCrowd's 'Investing in the Metaverse: Startups Inventing a New World.'
June 27, 2022, 12:30 pm
Israeli companies eye potential across the Metaverse
OurCrowd startups aim to insert emotion, personality into virtual space.
By Noa Shapira
The title page of the Henry Einspruch Yiddish translation of the New Testament. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 17, 2022, 2:07 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 17: Yiddish New Testament; virtual Chabad house; good COVID news
Health reporter Nathan Jeffay offers some rays of light from a waning Omicron wave; news editor Luke Tress dives into messianic Jewish missionaries and a virtual Chabad house
By ToI Staff
A three-dimensional virtual model of Chabad's MANA Jewish Center ahead of its placement in Decentraland. (Courtesy)
February 4, 2022, 7:25 am
Enter the metaverse: Chabad pioneers the first Jewish outpost in a virtual world
Movement’s MANA house will offer education and other services in the Decentraland digital realm, combining new technology and traditional outreach
By Luke Tress
Facebook employees take a photo with the company's new name and logo outside its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Thursday, October 28, 2021, after the company announced that it is changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
February 3, 2022, 8:54 am
Shares in Meta plunge over 20% as Facebook loses users for first time in its history
Tech giant executives point to competition from TikTok and other networks, while facing numerous probes and complaints of abuse of market dominance
By Glenn Chapman
Illustrative: A visitor interacts with a display through a virtual reality goggles at the Saatchi Gallery in London, on Sunday, December 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)
November 18, 2021, 7:03 pm
Israeli startups prepare to play major role in building metaverse
‘Creative reality’ startup D-ID, and VR/AR company Glimpse Group partner to bring ‘life’ into a futuristic virtual world
By Ricky Ben-David
Illustrative graphic of the Spike application running on the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset (Spike/Courtesy)
October 29, 2021, 2:42 pm
Israeli startup Spike partners with newly rebranded Meta, launches VR email app
The Herzliya-based company says it is the first Israeli developer to have software available for the Oculus Quest 2 headset; Facebook renaming aimed at focus on ‘metaverse’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
In this Oct. 12, 2021 file photo, Hadrien Gurnel, software engineer at EPFL's Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) explores with a virtual reality helmet the most detailed 3D map of the universe with the virtual reality software VIRUP, Virtual Reality Universe Project developed by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in St-Sulpice near Lausanne, Switzerland. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)
October 29, 2021, 5:24 am
What is the metaverse and how will it work?
Facebook announces it will change company name to Meta to embrace the futuristic idea that will transform the internet into a virtual environment
By Matt O'Brien and Kelvin Chan
FILE - In this Thursday, March 26, 2015, file photo, Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer talks about virtual reality while delivering a keynote address at the Facebook F8 Developers Conference, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
October 18, 2021, 6:25 am
Facebook announces it’s hiring 10,000 people in EU to build ‘metaverse’
Tech giant is touting a virtual reality version of the internet that blurs lines between physical and digital worlds as the technology of the future
By Katy Lee
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