Virtual Reality

Second episode of our special series discusses the potential for virtual reality now it has passed the age of initial hype For the second outing of the Playable Futures Podcast, games journalist Will Freeman chats with Tommy Palm, founder and CEO of Resolution Games to reflect on the future of…

By Leigh Charvet, PhD, clinical neuropsychologist, as told to Alyson Powell Key Charvet and Martin Malik co-presented the study “Virtual Reality as an Intervention for Chronic Pain in Multiple Sclerosis” at the American Academy of Neurology’s 73rd Annual Meeting, April 17-22, 2021, where scientists discuss the latest research in MS…

RobotEra is an exciting new multiverse cryptocurrency project that is set to let players create a colorful and immersive virtual reality experience. Users become robots in the game and are tasked to rebuild the world into their image.  Along the journey, players can earn rewards, create their economy, design and…

Before today, Qualcomm focused on mixed reality chipsets (XR1 and XR2) that could be used for both augmented and virtual reality headsets. The company is now making its first purpose-built AR chip with the Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1. Given the form factor’s physical constraints, Qualcomm is using a “multi-chip distributed…

In the near future, getting there might really be half the fun. Holoride, a Munich in-vehicle tech and entertainment startup, has pioneered a virtual reality-based platform that's designed to bring unique content to teenagers and other young-at-heart riders in the car. No more utilitarian travel between point A and point…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emails Palmer Luckey, the creator of Oculus, has created a virtual reality headset that intentionally kills people. Named ‘NerveGear’, the system aims to closely tie…

Imagine you’re walking through a series of rooms, circling closer and closer to a sound source, whether it’s music playing from a speaker or a person talking. The noise you hear as you move through this maze will distort and fluctuate based on where you are. Considering a scenario like…

Photo: Kevork Djansezian (Getty Images) It’s an old trope in a lot of dumb sci-fi movies that involve virtual reality: you die in the game, you die in real life. In said movies, characters get trapped in a digital simulation or a video-game and must play for their lives. If…

The man who created Oculus rift is creating a virtual reality (VR) headset that kills you in real life if you die in the video game. Yes, that’s right, you read that correctly. Palmer Luckey's killer headset is connected to three explosive charges that are primed and ready to go…

The metaverse may be the steady financial leak that sinks Meta’s ship, as the economic waters become more turbulent. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been spending roughly $10 billion a year on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), which may be the future of computing. For now, that…