360-degree video streaming has emerged as a pivotal technology in the delivery of immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences. This technology enables users to engage with content in a fully ...

The combination of the two technologies is enabling agencies to give employees hands-on training in the safest environments possible. Most job-related safety training is pretty basic and involves ...

Depicting worst-case climate scenarios like expanding deserts and dying coral reefs may better motivate people to support environmental policies when delivered via virtual reality, according to a ...

A virtual reality training series being developed for medical students and physicians teaches them about implicit bias in their communications with their patients who are people of color and how that ...

Penn State Behrend researchers believe they have broken the Guinness World Record for longest time spent in virtual reality. Lauren Cass spent 55 hours in VR, exceeding the previous record, after ...

Before Collab XR, Danny Milisavljevic, associate professor of physics and astronomy, had to painstakingly use 2D diagrams to describe complex 3D astronomical data. Milisavljevic could create ...

Virtual reality was supposed to transform entertainment. At least, that was the expectation roughly a decade ago with the arrival of the Oculus Rift, the first virtual reality (VR) headset that many ...

When I first started teaching online nearly 20 years ago, everything was done through Outlook. No learning management system. No Zoom. No interactive tools. If you wanted to make something visual, you ...

"OK, now let's cut this guy open." Photo: Florian Pircher/Pixabay. Licensed under CC0 1.0 Next month, St. Bartholemew’s Hospital in London will live-stream an operation, letting anyone with ...

Texas A&M University researchers have found that a brief virtual reality (VR) simulation of a near-death experience can sharply reduce people’s anxiety about death. In a small pilot study of about 60 ...