Driving the news: I recently got to try out a new extended-reality racing video game developed by Valeo, a French automotive supplier that makes hardware and software for assisted-driving systems.

Audi claims matching the car movements with the VR journey makes for a less sickness ... We need those self-driving cars now. Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office.

It would be fair to say that virtual and augmented reality technologies, while undoubtedly impressive when first used, haven’t matched the popularity of smartphones, tablets and smartwatches.