Virtual Reality

Today sees the launch of Sony's latest virtual reality headset, the PlayStation VR 2, which aims to offer a generational step up on the company's original VR headset. Announced in February 2022, the PSVR 2 follows up on 2016's PlayStation VR, which had sold 4.2 million units worldwide as of…

Source: optimum.com Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are two emerging technologies that have gained a lot of attention in recent years. Both technologies have the potential to transform the way we interact with digital content and the world around us. While there are similarities between AR and VR,…

Paedophiles are starting to use virtual reality headsets to view child abuse images, according to police data. Use of this technology was recorded in eight cases in 2021/22 - the first time this technology has been specifically mentioned in crime reports. During that period, police recorded 30,925 offences involving obscene…

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To learn, some might say, is to see something through another’s eyes. The eyes of an escaped convict. The eyes of a benevolent deity. The eyes of a child as it escapes to another world. With the launch of the PlayStation VR 2, this writer was able to witness all…

Veterans Affairs has announced the winners of the Mission Daybreak Grand Challenge, part of a 10-year strategy to end veteran suicide through a comprehensive public health approach. WHY IT MATTERS Preventing veteran suicide is the VA’s top clinical priority, according to an announcement about the Mission Daybreak winners. The challenge was…

Exclusive Virtual reality presently looks like it will offer virtually no privacy for those looking to hide online. That forecast comes not just from knowing that the leading cash-burner in the race to establish a metaverse, Meta. It follows from academic studies enumerating the more than two dozen private data…

The so-called metaverse and virtual reality are up-and-coming technologies that could offer healthcare quite a bit. Medical practitioners can test out the effectiveness of new surgical methods in the metaverse before attempting on real patients. And as an extension of telehealth, medical professionals can use virtual reality to access patients…

Take a trip across an impossible virtual reality-inspired landscape in a scene from the Canadian artist’s latest feature. In this extract from Jon Rafman’s new film Minor Daemon: Volume 1, the protagonist travels from the farthest reaches of space and time, across an arid planet populated by wild beasts towards…

Rez Infinite! Tetris Effect: Connected! More! With a little over a month to go until the release of PlayStation 5's spruced-up virtual reality kit, PSVR 2, Sony has revealed the full 37-game launch window line-up players can expect to arrie between 22nd February and the end of March. That list…