In this essay from a student in MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, new VR projects from Sundance illustrate the potential of the medium to instigate change. You can be asked to play the role of a young man ...

A VR experience created by students at The New School in New York City is designed to take viewers to an almond farm in California and illustrate the effects of pesticides on bee colonies. At first, ...

I witnessed a rare thing yesterday – a virtual reality product designed specifically for use in a B2B environment. And not just at a trade show. You may have noticed that the hype about VR went into ...

With the extended reality (XR) revolution already underway, it’s easy to envision a future in which the lines between the real world and the virtual world become even more blurred than they are today.

Imagine tapping into a raw data feed from a distributed network of IoT devices in a logistics center. The center is full of robots, employee work stations, and shipping and receiving docks. The data ...

Psychological interventions seek to help individuals to manage symptoms and improve functioning in everyday life. However, interventions are typically delivered in clinical settings in the absence of ...

While the benefits and drawbacks of virtual reality (VR) training are still hot topics of debate, the hyper-modern practice has quietly gained a foothold across various industries over the past few ...

When Oculus VR started to seriously consider its future as a business, it laid out two roadmaps. The first one is what vice president of product Nate Mitchell describes as "the plausible," a baseline ...

Science-fiction writers have a challenge: describe the potential future. It’s exciting to read about our possible coming realities, but it’s often better when we actually catch up. That is what’s ...

Megan Thee Stallion’s music might not be my personal cup of tea, but I know good tech when I see it—and I was floored when I hopped into the recently released Megan Thee Stallion VR Concert experience ...

Virtual reality (VR) is a technology that is gaining traction in the consumer market. With it comes an unprecedented ability to track body motions. These body motions are diagnostic of personal ...

Disabling injuries cost U.S. industries an estimated $1 billion in direct costs every week, according to OSHA data. In professions where inadequate safety procedures are a huge risk to the employee or ...