EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple's Vision Pro headset on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialApple’s Vision Pro headset, a new augmented reality device, on display during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., June 5, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialA headset, that is said to be able to detect when a part of the brain involving memory is activated, on display during a police conference in Dubai, on March 9, 2023. (The New York Times)
EditorialA headset, that is said to be able to detect when a part of the brain involving memory is activated, on display during a police conference in Dubai, on March 9, 2023. (The New York Times)
EditorialA headset, that is said to be able to detect when a part of the brain involving memory is activated, on display during a police conference in Dubai, on March 9, 2023. (The New York Times)
EditorialA headset, that is said to be able to detect when a part of the brain involving memory is activated, on display during a police conference in Dubai, on March 9, 2023. (The New York Times)
EditorialA headset, that is said to be able to detect when a part of the brain involving memory is activated, on display during a police conference in Dubai, on March 9, 2023. (The New York Times)
EditorialA headset, that is said to be able to detect when a part of the brain involving memory is activated, on display during a police conference in Dubai, on March 9, 2023. (The New York Times)
EditorialThe singer Bada, another host of “Girl’s Re:verse,” a K-pop in the metaverse show, prepares to don a headset and enter “W,” the show’s virtual universe, at a studio in Goyang, outside Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 27, 2022. (Jun Michael Park/The New York Times)
EditorialKashmir Hill, a technology reporter for The New York Times, dons a Quest 2 headset to spend time in Horizon Worlds, Meta’s virtual reality-based social network, in New York on Oct. 4, 2022. (Brian Finke/The New York Times)
EditorialJennifer Guy Cook holds the headset she used as a contact tracer, at her home in Brighton, N.Y., Sept. 1, 2022. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times)