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 ...

Picture this: You’re on top of an 80-story building and must wear a harness to protect yourself if you fall. But there are different kinds of harnesses lying around. You pick what you think is the ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion compare virtual reality and augmented reality and explain the differences. Understanding this distinction clarifies how immersive technologies will change entertainment ...

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A review of experimental research reveals how VR is best used and why it's struggled to become a megahit with consumers. Open heart surgery is a hard thing to practice in the real world, and airplane ...

Extended reality sounds cutting-edge and futuristic, and in a way it is. But you might be surprised to learn that you've ...

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 ...

Motion sickness is a phenomenon that has been investigated for as long as humans have traveled by sea. In the 2000 years since Hippocrates wrote about the experience of seasickness, physicians and ...

Does using VR or smart glasses damage your eyes? Here's what experts say about how harmful VR and smart glasses actually are ...

An electronic tongue that can replicate flavours like cake and fish soup could help recreate food in virtual reality, but can’t yet simulate other things that influence taste, such as smell. Yizhen ...