I spent a week working, exercising and relaxing in virtual reality. I’m shocked to say it finally works | Ed Newton-Rex

The Quest 3 is a recent model from Meta , called the Quest 3, and the conclusion was clear: this thing now works.

It feels a little unfinished, but we’ve reached the point where VR could at last become genuinely useful.

You can summon multiple screens, all connected to your computer, make them as large as you want, and place them anywhere in your environment.

The biggest surprise was working in VR .

Ed Newton-Rex is the founder of Fairly Trained , a non-profit that certifies generative AI companies that respect creators’ rights.

He says we’ve hit a tipping point and VR is not hype.

If you embrace it as something single-player and something you’re not going to be using much in public it is genuinely useful.