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Apple has announced its first VR headset

Apple Vision Pro won't solve the problems with virtual reality

5 June 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro headset announced at WWDC 2023 blends virtual and real-world experiences together. But it still has many of the same problems as other headsets

Smart glove that gives electro-tactile feedback

Smart glove enhances your sense of touch in virtual reality

13 May 2023

Stimulating nerves on the back of your hand makes it feel like you are grasping things in VR without needing to have your palms covered in material

BFA2A1 Fancy Rat, Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus domesticus, Rattus norvegicus domestica), six weeks old animal held in one hand

Rats can move objects in virtual reality using only their thoughts

6 May 2023

By reading a rat's intentions from its brain patterns, an AI can help the rodent move objects in a virtual environment

Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality

5 May 2023

A VR accessory called JumpMod can make users feel like they are jumping higher or landing harder, just by moving a weight on their back

Person on a bus wearing a VR headset and moving their fingers

Play VR games on a bus by wiggling your fingers as if they were arms

3 March 2023

Waving your arms to control your actions in virtual reality can lead to you accidentally punching things in the real world, but now software can help you control your virtual limbs by wiggling your fingers

Trajectory-wise image rendering results. Our final rendering results present better quality, structural consistency, and diversity, over the competing method GSN [2]. Each group of images is rendered within the same voxel world using a shared global style code, while GSN shares the same global latent vector in each group. https://hubert0527.github.io/infinicity/

AI generates virtual 3D cities that extend infinitely in any direction

14 February 2023

Detailed three-dimensional virtual cities can be quickly created by an artificial intelligence, which could be useful for making virtual reality worlds or training autonomous cars

A woman's hand using a touchscreen display

Ultrasound illusion could make buttons on a touchscreen feel real

8 February 2023

A wave of ultrasound that briefly levitates your finger off a plate of glass can make it feel as if you have just pressed a button, which could be useful for virtual reality or new kinds of displays

AI is listening in on gamer chat for toxic and abusive language

7 February 2023

Artificial intelligence is being used to detect harassment in verbal communications for gaming and VR platforms, but such AIs face challenges in keeping up with evolving forms of extreme speech

Drones on strings could puppeteer people in virtual reality

25 November 2022

Having drones on strings attached to a person could provide a more realistic simulation of interacting with physical objects in virtual reality

Author Neal Stephenson onstage at the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festival

Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants to build a metaverse open to all

29 September 2022

The science-fiction author who coined the term metaverse in his 1992 novel Snow Crash is going head-to-head with Meta and Microsoft to create an open-source platform for creating virtual worlds