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What is VR? Virtual reality uses computer technology to take you somewhere else—a digital “space” where you can move through and interact with others in a simulated environment. Whether that ...
Another place where virtual reality will be important is sharing the significance of your work. As scientists, we typically present our data to each other using PowerPoint presentations, which is ...
Jerod Harris—Getty Images for Kairos Soceity 2014 A man played a game with the virtual reality head-mounted display 'Oculus Rift' at International Games Week in Berlin.
The global market size for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) is expected to reach $297 billion by 2024, roughly ten times the $30.7 billion market size in 2021, Statistica predicts.
Now that virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) are becoming more mainstream, people outside of tech circles have more questions about how these technologies differ ...
Japan’s government and NHK are bullish about giving Japan a broadcast system that supports ultra-sharp 8K — 16 times the resolution of HD — in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Virtual reality was supposed to transform entertainment. At least, that was the expectation roughly a decade ago with the arrival of the Oculus Rift, the first virtual reality (VR) headset from ...
Xbox itself may have swerved virtual reality, but its previously-announced partnership with Meta VR seems to be on the horizon. A now-deleted thread on X (formerly Twitter) shared images of the ...
Virtual reality, with its ability to simulate almost any space, presents practically unlimited feedback communication and highly motivating gaming tasks that can fill in the missing components of ...