Imagine that when your great-grandparents were teenagers, they got their hands on a groundbreaking new gadget, the world’s first fully immersive virtual-reality entertainment system. These weren’t ...

Perception in virtual environments (VEs) is an interdisciplinary field that examines how users interpret spatial information when interacting with computer-generated realities. Research in this area ...

Physicists have long struggled to explain why the universe started with conditions suitable for life to evolve. Why do the physical laws and constants take the very specific values that allow stars, ...

In December, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare accredited George Mason University’s Lab for Immersive Technologies and Simulation, an innovative new program designed to bring a new dimension to ...

Virtual reality uses technology to “transport” you to a digital space where you can move through and interact with a simulated environment. It’s just one type of extended reality, an umbrella term ...