Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and the world, providing us ...

Welcome to the simulation hypothesis, an idea that’s been keeping philosophers up at night since ancient China, when Zhuang Zi wondered if he was a man dreaming of being a butterfly or vice versa. But ...

New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research suggests virtual reality (VR) may play a meaningful role in future mental-health ...

Weber State University nursing student Carsen Weyland uses virtual reality in Lampros Hall to simulate responding to a mass casualty event on July 20, 2023. At right is nursing instructor London ...

Virtual reality can transport people, through headsets and joysticks, into immersive, imaginary worlds where they can explore alien planets, battle zombies, or even play minigolf. But Yale ...

Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people ...

Training with this new technology could help the United States Navy avoid incidents like last year's collision between an ...

St. Louis, MO – Virtual reality isn’t just for video games. Some nursing students in St. Louis are using it to practice high-tech training without the need for real patients. Goldfarb School of ...

A virtual reality challenge seeks to help prepare astronauts for Red Planet living. NASA opened a new Mars challenge today (Feb. 16) in partnership with crowdsourcing platform HeroX, along with ...

When I first started teaching online nearly 20 years ago, everything was done through Outlook. No learning management system. No Zoom. No interactive tools. If you wanted to make something visual, you ...

DANVERS - The future of education is here at North Shore Community College where surgical technology students are using virtual reality to learn procedures in simulated operating rooms. "It's game ...

A new study explores how nature-based virtual reality can improve the wellbeing of children undergoing intensive treatments.