WHAT DO we actually mean by reality? A straightforward answer is that it means everything that appears to our five senses – everything that we can see, smell, touch and so forth. Yet this answer ...

The Big Ideas: What Is Reality? We invest meaning into the physical world — and we can do the same in digital worlds. By David Chalmers Mr. Chalmers is a professor of philosophy. This essay is part of ...

The speculation turned out to be prescient to a degree that has impressed even its authors. "It's interesting," Chalmers told me, "how some of these things go from being totally implausible, to ...

Have you ever played Pokémon GO? Or tried to see how furniture from IKEA looks in your apartment by pointing the phone screen at a specific place in the house? Maybe you managed to walk into a museum ...

I can’t claim to know much about reality. How could I? I’m human. Humans are pretty new to the reality game. Still, I have some guesses about the reality that are a little different, coming from ...

A type of augmented reality (AR) that combines fiction with the real world. For example, whereas AR glasses might display email or text messages, mixed reality (MR) glasses can simulate objects that ...

Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that allows users to experience and interact with computer-generated environments in a three-dimensional space. Unlike traditional 2D displays, VR creates a sense ...