Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gus Alexiou is a London-based reporter covering disability inclusion. A new study has demonstrated how virtual reality headsets ...

Research reveals that people’s perception of motion can be radically manipulated in passive virtual reality environments without making them feel unwell. Researchers from the University of Glasgow led ...

A £4.3 million UK government scheme is aiming to to encourage more than 140,000 people into medicine manufacturing using VR training.

Virtual Reality was once considered a niche for video games, but over the years, it has found application in many areas. From finding a place in medical education and paving the way for immersive ...

Prejudice and discrimination touch every corner of society, shaping the daily lives of marginalized groups worldwide. Whether it’s racial bias, cultural divides, or gender inequalities, these problems ...

Anna Fang, a graduate student in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon, uses a VR headset to practice stress relief strategies. Everyday situations ...

You don’t have to look far to find reports of people who have used VR headsets and then felt ‘off’ after removing them. While motion sickness is surely the most well-known post-VR symptom, a subset of ...

A groundbreaking new therapy using virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) could soon help people overcome ...

Introduction Visual Hallucinations (VHs) (seeing things that others do not, or visions) are a common feature of psychosis, causing significant distress and disability. Services rarely ask about these ...

Virtual reality (VR) is taking professional training to a new level. While some forms of VR have been successfully used for decades — flight simulators, for example, are a long-standing and crucial ...

Virtual reality technology is playing a vital role in readying inmates in California to reintegrate themselves back to society.