Virtual Reality

The South Korean Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology is planning a 30 billion won ($26.2 million) investment in a research programme to develop digital treatments for depression. WHY IT MATTERS Based on a news report by Seoul-based news agency Yonhap, the number of South Koreans with depression…

University College London Virtual Reality (VR) in museums is the focus of a newly funded knowledge exchange project that brings together UCL Culture, UCL’s Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and AI technology start-up Kagenova, which was founded by UCL scientists. The project will enable these highly specialised teams…

Listen to this story Dynamic Business spoke with Vantari VR co-founders and co-CEOs Dr Vijay Paul and Dr Nishanth Krishnananthan about how doctors and students across Australia are using their virtual reality platform to learn from immersive simulations that mimic real-life medical procedures. Since 2017, the Vantari team has been on a mission to improve the…

HONG KONG, July 15, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the 30th edition of the HKTDC Education & Careers Expo opened today and runs until 18 July (Sunday) at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). The expo is held concurrently…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 July 2021 / 1,618 Views Head of Xbox Phil Spencer speaking in the latest Kinda Funny Gamescast said it is unlikely Xbox would release any major accessories like a virtual reality headset in the near future. However, he did suggest Xbox might update its…

Image Credit: Devindra Hardawar/Engadget As far as VR technology goes, the Focus 3 has just about everything you'd want in a modern headset. But there are simple, less technical upgrades that I appreciated too, like its support for large 150mm-wide glasses. It usually takes a bit of effort for me…

AT&T and Facebook Reality Labs are joining forces to work on "collaborative video calling" as well as augmented reality experiences in Facebook’s apps. They're using Spark AR, a platform from Facebook that powers AR experiences across devices and the company's apps. Their first AR collaboration is a promo for Space…

Paul Rose aka Scuba has been traversing the landscape of electronic dance music since the early 2000s, from playing a key role in the dubstep movement with his Hotflush label, which is still releasing cutting edge electronic music, to uniting the dub and techno scenes in Berlin with his influential…

At last week’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, executives from Beijing-based property platform Beike explained the potential for artificial intelligence to impact the real estate industry. While AI has endowed more residences with smart home features like voice assistants or intelligent appliances , processes for buying and renting property…

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Virtual reality arcades looked like they were doomed with the onset of the pandemic. People had to social distance, and coming together at places like Sandbox VR‘s location-based virtual reality experiences just wasn’t going to happen.…