Virtual Reality

Earlier this week TED-Ed published a new lesson titled Can You Spot the Problem With These Headlines? The short video lesson walks students through dissecting a couple of hypothetical news headlines. By watching the video students can begin to understand how …

The current capabilities of virtual reality amaze some while disappointing others, but it's only a matter of time when VR will live up to everyone's expectations. If comments by Sony Global Head of R&D for PlayStation Dominic Mallinson are to be considere…

The Oculus Quest has built-in sensors that can make any area into a VR space. Oculus' Guardian system lets you set up a boundary in any room or area that you'd like and the device sets up a virtual grid to ensure that you stay in your secure area. But…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing Thi…

VR training helps police interact with autistic

Virtual reality (VR) can identify early Alzheimer's disease more accurately than 'gold standard' cognitive tests currently in use, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge.The study highlights the potential of new technologies to help diagnose a…

Google’s VR Tour Creator offers an excellent way to create virtual tours that can be viewed in your web browser and or in the Google Expeditions app. Google’s Street View imagery is the backbone of the VR Tour Creator. To start creating a tour you have to i…

Engineers and researchers from Samsung’s AI Center in Moscow and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology have created a model that can generate realistic animated talking heads from images without traditional methods like 3D modeling. Samsung opened AI …

Observing and interacting with augmented reality and virtual reality content is nice, but after a while students will get bored with the pre-made commercial content. You can combat some of that boredom by putting students in charge of picking the AR and VR ex…

When you think of use cases for virtual reality, what springs to mind? Gaming? Almost certainly. Films? Possibly. Live music? Probably not. But if Anthony Matchett gets his way, live music might just be the future of the medium. The 30-year-old is the c…