In the midst of reformatting its print edition, The Wall Street Journal is launching a virtual reality application in hopes that consumers looking for an alternative to cable news will gravitate towards immersive business and financial reportage. The app is called WSJ VR and is viewable through Google Daydream in conjunction with select Daydream-ready phones, including models from LG, Samsung and of course, the recently announced Google Pixel and Pixel XL. WSJ’s newest offering comes at a time when a number of publications within the stratum of high news journalism are rolling out dedicated VR components of their newsrooms.

As virtual reality continues to shape publishing, augmented reality comes into play with beauty publication Allure’s standalone application that brings print magazine issues to life as everything shifts to digital. Subscribers of Allure are getting a unique and innovative experience with magazine reading with the latest December issue. The publisher, which caters to a younger, millennial-stocked audience, is releasing its next print issue with an interactive experience in which users can use their mobile devices to unlock 3D motion-enable images.

It's no fun starting your commute by going at your car with an ice scraper on a frosty morning. If you own a 2016 Hyundai, you won't have to -- at least if you have an Amazon Echo at home. The car-maker has baked Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant into its Blue Link connected car app. This means you can start your car, and set the temperature (among other things) from the warm embrace of your comforter using just your voice starting today. Hyundai isn't the first to think about connecting its cars to Amazon's smarthome kit. Back at CES in January, Ford announced it'd be integrating …

Richemont-owned French leather goods maker Lancel is safeguarding consumers’ belongings through RFID technology included in its Explorer luggage collection. Lancel’s Explorer collection features 30 lightweight pieces such as four-wheel rolling suitcases to weekenders and garment cases, all of which are fit with a geolocation device to keep track of a bag’s location. Lost luggage complicates travel and can be frustrating for consumers who must trust hotel or airport baggage handlers without much control over the situation.

British automaker Jaguar took a fittingly high-tech approach to give consumers a first look at its debut electric vehicle. Before the brand’s I-Pace Concept premieres at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Nov. 16, Jaguar hosted a live, connected virtual reality experience in both London and Los Angeles. With only one physical concept car created, this initiative enabled Jaguar to share its reveal with a larger audience in multiple markets.

In a stunt that could mark the end of scooter-driven fast food, Domino’s sent its first ever unmanned aircraft to successfully carry out a pizza order. Amazing footage of the delivery to an address in Whangaparaoa, just north of Auckland, shows the drone named DRU swooping down from the sky to hoover over the house. It then winches down the order — a Peri-Peri Chicken and a Chicken and Cranberry pizza — before zooming off back to base.

The technological features in Volkswagen’s I.D. Concept weren’t just for show, as Volkswagen plans to implement them in series production. Concept cars are usually filled to the brim with futuristic ideas, conceived to make them more fascinating and engaging. Obviously, not all make it into the real world, but things will reportedly be different with Volkswagen’s upcoming electric car. Speaking to Autocar, VW brand design boss Klaus Bischoff said that the vehicle will use augmented HUD system, capable of projecting information, pictograms, and even navigation directions on the windscreen – appearing as if they were on the road surface, 49 feet (15 meters) ahead of the …

Nokia made some great smartphone cameras back in the day, but we certainly didn't expect that to lead to the Ozo, a $45,000, 360-degree 3D virtual reality camera. Now, the Finnish company will provide expertise and Ozo cameras to Sony Pictures, which will use them to create VR content. The studio will also take advantage of the Ozo Live VR broadcast capability "to transport fans to Sony Pictures events that they couldn't otherwise attend," the company wrote. There are other VR rigs out there that can take higher-quality images. And it seems …

There's not enough people on the planet to run the network when looking at the scale of the Internet of Things, said Cisco's IoT leader Rowan Trollope. "The design of networks today, which are largely manual and involve people with fingers to keyboards and tools configuring them, there aren’t enough people on Earth – even if we could certify them as CCIE's -- to run the network the way that it's being run today when you look at the scale of the Internet of Things to configure the network," said Trollope, senior vice president and General Manager, IoT and Applications. …

Apple Inc. is weighing an expansion into digital glasses, a risky but potentially lucrative area of wearable computing, according to people familiar with the matter. While still in an exploration phase, the device would connect wirelessly to iPhones, show images and other information in the wearer’s field of vision, and may use augmented reality, the people said. They asked not to be identified speaking about a secret project. Apple has talked about its glasses project with potential suppliers, according to people familiar with those discussions. The company has ordered small quantities of near-eye displays from one supplier for testing, the people …