Researchers from Japan developed a novel technology that transforms real-world doors into interactive portals between physical and virtual worlds, enhancing user experience and immersive virtual ...

Virtual and extended reality technologies help college students and faculty access learning experiences and research methods that extend beyond classroom walls. Calvin Hennick is a freelance ...

Virtual technology has existed for more than 50 years. However, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have only ...

DreamPark, the creator of what it calls “the world’s largest downloadable mixed reality (XR) theme park,” said it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The investment will accelerate DreamPark’s ...

On a warm afternoon last fall, Steven Caron, a technical artist at the video-game company Quixel, stood at the edge of a redwood grove in the Oakland Hills. “Cross your eyes, kind of blur your eyes, ...

In "Luz," writer-director Flora Lau immerses viewers in the mystical world of a simulated reality game of the same name. Set in Chongqing, one of China's largest cities, the film follows Ren (Sandrine ...

For a while now, I’ve been telling anyone who’d listen that Millennials are the bridge generation when it comes to modern tech. We went from corded phones to dial-up internet (shoutout to anyone still ...

That’s kind of what augmented reality, or AR, is all about. It’s not about escaping to a totally new digital place like ...

This article is also available as a pdf version. A young man walks toward the entrance to an underground subway. As he starts down the escalator, his heart rate increases, but he continues. He ...

You log into a virtual world. Your body is digital: it can’t be touched, it doesn’t have a scent. And yet, someone leans in too close. Their avatar stares, their ...