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

Prisoners are now taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales such as Thailand. No passport required, just a virtual ...

The virtual-reality revolution may yet be a ways off – but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a taste of it right now. In fact, there’s a virtual-reality viewer already on the market that’s fun and easy ...

Virtual reality can transport people, through headsets and joysticks, into immersive, imaginary worlds where they can explore alien planets, battle zombies, or even play minigolf. But Yale ...

Virtual reality and augmented reality once felt like promises that were always a few years away. Yet right now, in early 2026 ...

Researchers have developed a virtual reality application where a range of 3D modelling tools can be opened and controlled using just the movement of a user's hand. Researchers have developed a virtual ...

A virtual reality (VR) “answering machine” can record changes in a person’s immediate environment while they are immersed in virtual worlds and play them back later. In workplaces of the future, ...

“I just wish I could save them all,” my virtual reality police officer avatar says as he gazes upon a young woman’s abandoned corpse lying beside a back-alley dumpster. My VR cop partner offers a limp ...

A major goal of the field of neuroprosthetics has focused on improving the lives of paralyzed patients by restoring their lost real-world abilities. One example was the 2012 work by neuroscientists ...