Imagine an engineer who begins her morning inside a fully immersive virtual factory, rearranging production lines with a ...

Imagine stepping into your dream home before it is even built. Virtual reality (VR) technologies are revolutionizing architecture by allowing clients to walk through their future spaces, change ...

Because we in Silicon Valley are newness junkies, it can feel like an act of sabotage to have memories, but, for better or worse, I have them. It’s been more than forty years since I co-founded the ...

Aiming to address age-related cognitive decline, a growing global health challenge, a team of researchers has developed a VR-based smell-training system to help combat it. This innovative VR game ...

This transformative technology opens new worlds for product design and beyond. Here’s how it works and how to get started. Virtual reality (VR) is opening new worlds for engineers. The impressive ...

Psychologists from Edith Cowan University (ECU) have used virtual reality (VR) technology in a new study that aims to better understand criminals and how they respond when questioned. The results are ...

What is the timetable for the general adoption of VR in courtrooms? It's not a matter of "if," but "when." For years, trial lawyers have been intrigued by the potential of virtual reality in trials.

Exposure to nature—even in a virtual setting—can enhance the emotional well-being and quality of life for older adults living with dementia. That's the main finding from a pilot study led by Junhyoung ...

Synesthesia has received increasing attention in popular science writing. Psychology Today describes it as a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway, for ...

There are few things more tenacious than a bias we don’t know we have. Implicit attitudes, buried deep in our mental machinery, can quietly shape how we perceive, judge, and act. We may not feel them, ...