Vr

I got Meta's flagship Quest 3 headset last year. Not only did I love it and use it all the time — as described in my April feature on VR  — but so did my sister, who would play Beatsaber every time she visited. As a good brother, it was pretty obvious what this year's Christmas present for her should be, so I picked up a late-model version of the Quest 2 and a bunch of the most premium accessories. When she opened it on Christmas morning, she had tears in her eyes, so happy to have her own headset and play Beatsaber whenever she wanted — and to do so in multiplayer with me, despite us living countries apart. She put it on and went through the initial set-up, at which point the headset said it needed to download an update, and she left it to install.

Western governments seem ill-prepared to grapple with rapidly advancing technology. Watch any congressional hearing where a crusty congressman tries to keep pace with Silicon Valley’s top “autists” if you need further evidence — and read Spencer A. Klavan’s analysis of the high-skill but low-status rejects uniting into a formidable social class. The Silent Generation and boomers simply cannot keep up. The Space Race is back on — and tycoons are eager to cash in on the final frontier. Shane Cashman dives into the new wild west of explorers and entrepreneurs commercializing the great unknown. Lionel Shriver brings us back to earth with a look at the electrical grid and our government’s push for green energy and electric vehicles.