A nonprofit uses VR headsets to offer inmates practical scenarios like job interviews alongside travel experiences, providing ...

Jessup, Maryland (CNN) — In her first week of job training, Tiffany Joseph Busch learned how to do an oil change. “If I had known it was this easy then I wouldn’t have been paying for oil changes,” ...

The first tool that mechanic trainees at Maryland’s Vehicles for Change program pick up is not a wrench, but a pair of virtual reality goggles. First, students watch an instructor virtually ...

Virtually reality has been around for some time, but in terms of safety training, VR has only recently entered the industrial world. To that end, in 2019 Honeywell (honeywell.com) unveiled a virtual ...

Rich interactions between the user and the virtual world are a key aspect of what makes VR so compelling, but creating and tuning such interactions is a challenging and time consuming task for ...

Growing up, you may have heard your parents scolding you for sitting too close to the TV. "You'll go blind!" or "You'll need glasses later on!" are just a couple of my parents' daily reproaches, ...

LibreOffice's Android app has been ported to Meta Horizon OS, bringing it to Quest headsets. The VR version of the app ...

Some employers are excited about swapping out computer monitors for virtual reality headsets, but the side effects of using VR are not completely understood. In a recent study, my colleagues and I ...

As AR/VR technologies continue to improve for education applications, some higher ed leaders are increasingly confident in their efforts to create digital “metaversities,” an idea popularized last ...

The trial found patients using VR could get through an entire surgical procedure with only local anesthetic. Researchers are exploring a number of novel medical uses for VR technology, from using VR ...

Virtual and augmented reality could eventually revolutionize how you work, but as we look at it in early 2023, it is an expensive pipe dream. Major shifts in how people work are rare occurrences if ...