Struggling with spatial navigation in a virtual reality environment can predict actual brain shrinkage a year later in adults ...

Schematic of the VR haptic feedback brain activity experiment. view more . Credit: POSTECH. What if virtual reality could go ...

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are developing a virtual reality-based learning environment to improve middle school students’ interest in STEM fields, specifically the evolving ...

Working with teens, UW researchers designed RESeT: a snowy virtual world with six activities, listed on the center image, intended to improve mood. The left panel shows the welcome screen, and the ...

A few years ago, my good friend Lukasz Porwol, leader of the eGovernment Unit at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway, invited me to experiment with his ...

Police departments across Northeast Ohio are using virtual reality technology to train officers for high-stress situations ...

Almost a decade ago, Chongxi Lai, then a graduate student at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus, was puzzled by a nagging question: Are animals capable of imagination? “I ...

The first time I used virtual reality (VR), I was struck by how completely it cut my senses off from my surroundings. By the time I took the headset off, I had lost track of where I was standing in ...

Virtual reality (VR) devices offer great potential for immersive communication and interactivity. But so far, it turns out few of us want to put on a clunky headset to make those possibilities come ...