As NASA prepares to send the first humans to Mars, LIFE VR, TIME and 8i have collaborated and created Buzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways to Mars, the world’s first holographic ‘archival VR’ project.
The $73 million project will allow Singapore officials to navigate through a digital representation of the city while accessing a wide array of data.
A team earned the $25,000 grand prize for creating a virtual-reality platform that gives residents in assisted-living facilities the chance to explore the world virtually.
Calcflow is a virtual reality application that lets you explore mathematical theorems and scenarios in an interactive virtual reality environment.
The high cost of equipment seems to be a hurdle the public won't pass, but location-based VR offers new opportunities for manufacturers of gear, creators of content and distributors
Capturing the public's interest and attention, these mixed reality technologies spread into home devices from smartphones to headsets, with media from the NFL to the NBA, to business markets including real estate and travel.
Timmu Tõke envisions a future where a realistic 3-D avatar of himself meets up in a virtual world to interact with other avatars that look just like the people from home.
In a live stage demo presented by Mark Zuckerberg himself, we see a unified "people-first" environment that could seamlessly cycle through hanging out with friends in various VR environments.
Using this exoskeleton in a virtual environment, a baseball feels firm, and an egg light and fragile.
The astronauts who will one day be the first to walk on Mars are likely middle school students today. A virtual reality tour of Mars is done on a retrofitted school bus outside the Denver Museum of Nature, USA
With a year of intense brain training, eight paraplegics regained partial sensation and voluntary control of their paralyzed body areas, despite having spinal cord injuries that were previously diagnosed as irreversible.
Pokémon Go turns everything we know about gaming on its head. It’s a massively multiplayer real life videogame. RL games have the power to take our beloved stories and franchises and bring them to life. Not only that, they can add a sense of depth, awareness, and somewhat ironically, mindfulness about the real world.
It might seem a sensationalist claim, but with the advent of virtual reality we could be on the brink of the biggest change to the way we watch films in over a century.
Google makes several announcements, including its mobile virtual reality platform Daydream, that reveal its long-term strategy to bring VR to the masses.
Magic Leap unveiled a new video demonstration of its technology, complete with virtual screens that could theoretically replace a phone or even a desktop PC.