Meta releases Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, enabling users to browse, post, interact, and watch videos in VR, enhancing social interaction within the VR environment.
Discord is now available as a native app on Meta Quest VR headsets, offering full access to servers, DMs, and calls. The app enhances the VR experience with built-in mic support, in-game interface pinning, gameplay streaming, and Meta avatar integration for calls.
Russian hospitals are using VR headsets as a non-medical pain relief method during labor, offering immersive nature scenes and guided meditations to distract patients from contractions.
All 15 secondary schools in Sutton, London are piloting VR headsets from tech firm Phase Space in partnership with the local NHS mental health trust. The seven-minute VR programme helps pupils manage stress from exams, ADHD, anxiety, and difficult home lives. Nine out of ten pupils who used the headsets saw an immediate drop in stress, with improvements also seen in attendance and behaviour.
