VR Opens Up New Ways to Explore the Microcosm
If you’ve ever run through the Oculus Dreamdeck experience you’ll know there’s one slice of the demo where you find yourself standing inside what appears to be a vein, blocked at one end by an insect...
View ArticleStudy Shows VR Might Help Reduce Severe Paranoia
Schizophrenia is an especially tough mental disorder to live with. Imagine having your sense of reality shift in ways that make it difficult to deal with real life. One common issue that such people...
View ArticleNo Body? No Problem! With Singapore University VR Cadavers
Are you ever worried that you’re not really doing anything meaningful with your life? Like most people I worry that after I die nothing I did will really amount to anything, so one day I got a...
View ArticleResearchers Show How VR Helps Kids Get Over Needles
I really hate needles and I always have. My school used to hand out free vaccinations. Ones my parents still believe that I actually got to this day. I don’t know if some other kid got an extra dose,...
View ArticleOne VR App Could Help Out People Scared of an MRI
I don’t fear a lot of things in life, but there are two evils on my list of irrational fears that cause cold sweats at the mere thought of them – heights and small space. While I’m not so...
View ArticleWoman’s Deceased Daughter “Resurrected” in VR: Unethical or the Future?
Now that we have practical, affordable and highly-realistic VR there’s always the question of what we’ll do with this technological tool. While most people are going to create VR experiences that will...
View ArticleVirtual Reality in Dentistry: A Match Made in Heaven?
Modern dentistry is a pretty painless practise, but all the cutting-edge dental techniques in the world do little for the anxiety of individual patients. In the collective imagination of the public...
View ArticleConsumer VR Treadmills Still Aren’t A Thing, But Kat VR Is Giving It A Go Anyway
One of the biggest hurdles facing immersive VR is freedom of movement. While we can easily make someone see and hear a large space around them, any attempt to actually move through that space will end...
View ArticleMotion Sickness is Still a Problem in VR, but Valve and OpenBCI are Working...
The VR revolution that occurred around 2016 happened because some very smart folks managed to solve key issues that prevented VR from being a truly great experience, ready for mainstream consumers....
View ArticleOsso VR: Revolutionising Surgical Training
As VR technology develops, so too do the potential applications for various industries. One such sector where VR shows great promise is medicine and healthcare. Using VR hardware, it is possible to...
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