BEIJING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 26: A Chinese couple wear virtual reality (VR) glasses on a roller coaster simulator at Leke VR Park, a leading chain, on November 26, 2016 in Beijing, China. While virtual ...

How one professor uses online games as petri dishes of human behavior Edward Castronova has been a wizard, a clergyman, and lately, a monster-slaying blonde, all inside virtual worlds. Scholars may ...

We’re in a major technological revolution where artificial intelligence, gaming, and virtual reality are allowing us to create and enter totally new spaces and have new experiences there. In these ...

Virtual worlds are about to take a huge leap in realism and immersion. But are they safe for the children who use them? Youngsters have been visiting online spaces—such as Minecraft, Roblox and ...

As the trend of real-life creeping into virtual worlds continues, will some form of regulation be necessary sooner than later? And how valuable can online games be in modeling real-life human behavior ...

In an era characterized by leaps in technology, the concept of virtual worlds has emerged, holding the potential to reshape the way we interact, learn, and connect. These digital realms are designed ...

Scenes showing how virtual worlds affect real life splashed Europe’s largest advertising display during Dassault Systèmes’ weeklong campaign at London’s Piccadilly Circus. A human heart beating inside ...

There are many ways to facilitate your students’ immersion in simulations. There are two types of simulations: augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). In a VR simulation, the learner is ...

Viverse, the open computing platform for virtual worlds from HTC Corp., today announced the release of a suite of tools that will give creators the ability to build and share immersive multiplayer ...

"Accessibility is critical," the singer-songwriter writer tells PEOPLE about why she is partnering with the virtual reality platform Innerworld, which offers peer-to-peer mental health support for ...

For all the talk about Second Life, you’ d think it was the most popular virtual world on the Internet. After all, IBM has its own island there. Harvard holds classes there. And anyone who can figure ...