After the holidays, many may have been gifted the latest VR headsets. But now health experts are warning that spending too much time on these devices can cause a child to lose touch with reality.

Virtual reality has been the next big thing for decades. The appeal isn’t hard to understand: the ability to strap on a headset and dive into a different world has the potential to transform ...

In the real world, you wouldn't want to carry a handheld controller all the time, or have menus constantly popping up in front of your face – so why put up with those things in VR worlds? With ...

Firmament: from Latin firmamentum—that which strengthens or supports. In an ancient cosmological sense, the word was also used to refer to the sky, or the vault of the heavens fixed above Earth.

In order for a VR environment to seem real, it definitely helps if you can experience the sensation of touch within that virtual world. A special sleeve could soon allow people to better do so, using ...

In virtual reality there is much to be seen, but most of our other senses are left wanting. Ever since the concept gathered mainstream attention in the 1990s, it’s been primarily experienced through ...

A new haptic ring for VR is trying to solve a stubborn problem, virtual touch still feels flat. Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University, EPFL, and Istanbul Technical University built an ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is testing new Quest hand-tracking features that let you directly touch virtual objects in VR. They’re cool ...

As we fast approach Q4 2023, there is one topic at the forefront of every retailer’s mind: holiday shopping. And if Amazon Prime Day sales and back-to-school shopping trends are any indication (hint: ...