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.

The sun never sets in virtual reality. This occurred to me after an hour-long briefing in an Oculus Quest 2 headset. Joined by more than a dozen other floating avatars, we teleported our way around an ...

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 ...

The sense of presence—the psychological experience of “being there”—has emerged as a critical phenomenon in Virtual Reality (VR) research. While traditional approaches have predominantly focused on ...

Grayson Mullen was playing a virtual reality game at a friend’s house when, suddenly, he noticed that something very strange was happening. “I stopped playing the game, and I realized that I had no ...

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 ...

Why Snap, Unity, Xreal, and Texas A&M University are among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in augmented and virtual reality for 2025. Innovative organizations are finding ways to make ...

It has been seven years since Palmer Luckey appeared on the cover of WIRED magazine. The June 2014 issue declared, “This kid is about to change gaming, movies, TV, music, design, medicine, sex, sports ...

Future Apple AR devices, such as "Apple Glass," may include holograms to make moving through virtual environments feel more natural. Apple has already very many patents and patent applications ...

Two years after Arizona State University replaced all of its introductory biology labs with virtual reality labs, the university’s rising tide of STEM majors are getting better overall grades and ...

Some care facilities are giving older adults a way to visit their pasts to boost their well-being. By Matt Fuchs John Faulkner, 76, was becoming emotionally withdrawn before he arrived at Central ...