Students at E.O. Smith High School had the opportunity to experience a virtual reality exhibition commemorating the Yazidi genocide in Iraq on Wednesday, Feb. 5. The exhibition, which is titled ...

A new reality for the student in-class experience powered up this fall for the Purdue University White Lodging-J.W. Marriott, Jr. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM). The arrival of six ...

The field of Human-Computer Interaction in virtual environments represents a dynamic interdisciplinary area where advances in computer science, psychology and design converge to create immersive and ...

Within a matter of minutes, the headsets can transport them to Europe, immerse them in the ocean depths or send them soaring ...

In virtual reality there is much to be seen, but most of our other senses are left wanting. Ever since the concept gathered mainstream attention in the 1990s, it’s been primarily experienced through ...

Beeping medical equipment, ringing phones, rushing feet — the sounds of a hospital surround a Purdue University School of Nursing (NUR) student as they tend to their patient and are paged to care for ...

Big tech is eager to get us excited about the coming of the metaverse, but today's virtual reality hardware is a long way from meeting their ambitious goals. One of the biggest challenges is building ...

Recently, my colleague Susan Persky and I identified five key advantages of using virtual reality for psychological research. These advantages make up the acronym “DREAM”: data collection, realism, ...

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 ...