Virtual reality tools have untapped potential to elicit positive emotions for use in education, health care, architecture and ...

Virtual reality (VR) has arrived in the fire service as a transformative tool for enhancing training effectiveness and realism. Immersing students in a virtual environment that’s a familiar setting, ...

A few years ago, my good friend Lukasz Porwol, leader of the eGovernment Unit at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway, invited me to experiment with his ...

As immersive technologies – augmented, virtual and extended reality (AR, VR, XR) – and virtual environments mature, collaboration between and among gamers, researchers, designers, engineers, ...

The first time I used virtual reality (VR), I was struck by how completely it cut my senses off from my surroundings. By the time I took the headset off, I had lost track of where I was standing in ...

Explore how businesses are using virtual reality to improve training, sales and customer experiences, plus the pros and cons of adopting VR.

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are developing a virtual reality-based learning environment to improve middle school students’ interest in STEM fields, specifically the evolving ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Augusta University’s College of Nursing ...