Virtual Reality

Mazaria is a new virtual reality-focused theme park from Bandai-Namco which opened this past July in Tokyo. It's filling the space in the Ikebukuro neighborhood's Sunshine City mall previously occupied by the Shonen Jump theme-park J-World, but in essence, it…

One of the leading figures in augmented reality, Caspar Thykier, believes that AR will happily sit alongside virtual reality in the future rather than replace it. "Most of the conferences over the last three to five years have pitted AR and VR against each o…

Courtesy of Kilograph Design company Kilograph has announced the release of Imagined Landscapes, a new virtual reality experience exploring the unbuilt work of architect Michael Graves. Based on Graves personal paintings, Imagined Landscapes offers the first…

Mason Gadischkie with Michael Cowling, aka Professor Tech, for the VR session at the Bundaberg Regional Library. Professor Tech, or CQUniversity's Professor Michael Cowling as he is otherwise known, was at Bundaberg Library this week to inspire students to g…

Facebook has reportedly partnered with Ray-Ban and Oakley company Luxottica to develop AR glasses. Angela Lang/CNET Facebook has partnered up with Ray-Ban and Oakley sunglasses maker Luxottica to develop augmented reality (AR) glasses, according to a report…

HTC will continue to focus on VR and XR (extended reality), 5G and AI with Maitre at the helm. In the press release, Maitre said that HTC "will set out immediately to continue the transition from building the worlds' best consumer hardware to also building co…

While filming on the Chagos Islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, he was surprised to see the material on the high tide.  These are some of the most remote islands in the world, no one lives there now but the amount of plastic on the beach and covering…

(Reuters Health) - A virtual reality program with cartoon characters may reduce children’s fear before imaging procedures, a South Korean study suggests. Compared to verbal instructions, a virtual reality experience that explained the process of chest X-ray…

Left to Right: Parth N, Mickey S, Myra L, Michael B VECTRE Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) training is becoming a significant investment for companies, commanding an $8B annual spend in the US alone. And yet the traditional methods for conductin…

There's a new version of amusement to test the boundaries of thrill-seekersvirtual reality (VR) theme park rides! Along with thrill rides explicitly made for VR and existing roller coasters, drop towers and water slides augmented with the technology for a new…