The combination of the two technologies is enabling agencies to give employees hands-on training in the safest environments ...

Virtual reality in the classroom may sound complicated to master, expensive to implement, and generally more trouble than it is worth. But those are misconceptions, said two teachers who regularly use ...

Realtors and developers are using real-estate virtual-reality tech to help potential homeowners find their next house and ...

Explore how virtual reality improves senior care by facilitating better training, scalability, and patient wellbeing.

Lowered costs and a growing population familiar with technology have helped fuel interest in using virtual reality in campus counseling. Use of virtual reality grown in classrooms over the last few ...

Earlier this month, scientists published a ground-breaking study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research discussing the efficacy of virtual reality (VR) as a means for pain relief. The study ...

Simply being exposed to a sick avatar in a virtual reality environment is enough to trigger a measurable immune response in humans. This is what a multidisciplinary research team from the CHUV ...

The study in question was funded and conducted at Massey University Strategic Excellence Research Fund and Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus, New Zealand. The authors reviewed several ...

Traditional research tools such as surveys, observing people’s behaviors, and using confederate actors in experiments has helped psychologists learn a lot about human behavior. However, many crucial ...

There are few things more tenacious than a bias we don’t know we have. Implicit attitudes, buried deep in our mental machinery, can quietly shape how we perceive, judge, and act. We may not feel them, ...