Virtual Virtual Reality 2, coming Feb. 10, asks what happens to our freedom when the owners of the metaverse change their minds. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable ...

Virtual Virtual Reality launched on Google Daydream back in 2017, but thanks to some fun and clever interaction design that worked equally well on both 3DOF and 6DOF headsets, the game made its way to ...

A technology has been developed that allows users to easily pick up a coffee cup on a desk without removing a VR (virtual ...

Previous research has shown the positive effects of exposure to real and virtual nature. To investigate how such benefits might generalize to ever-more-prevalent virtual workplaces, we examined the ...

UC Santa Cruz Assistant Teaching Professor of Computational Media Samantha Gorman (photo by Carolyn Lagattuta.) A new virtual reality (VR) game set in the world of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things ...

What if you could swap perspectives with a human, animal, or object just by making eye contact? That question lies at the heart of Face Jumping, a new virtual reality (VR) experience co-created by UC ...

I had an experience 25 years ago that changed my perspective on computing and education. Back then I was running the early virtual reality (VR) company Immersion Corporation. Immersion developed the ...

With more companies jumping on the bandwagon, virtual reality tech is more visible – and investable – than ever.

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna and ETH Zurich have developed a rehabilitation platform for people suffering from the long-term effects of a stroke that combines virtual reality with ...

Virtual reality (VR) headsets are increasingly popular among adults and children. They are part of extended reality environments, which “enable ever more realistic and immersive experiences”. VR ...