If you could spend the day in somebody else’s shoes, your perspective of that person would likely change. It’s not so easy to do in real life, but in virtual reality (VR), you can make anything happen. Dr. Quentin Tyler is the Director of Diversity ...

The Google Cardboard app lets you use your phone into a VR device, and it's available for free and is designed to work with cheap VR viewers.

The company's Hyperscape VR app will have the ability to create digital replicas of your surroundings. Photorealistic avatars may soon follow.

After his father died of Covid last fall, Donkan Martinez was overwhelmed by grief and turned to an unlikely outlet: virtual reality. The 24-year-old found himself wading into an emerging field of virtual mental health care, via a service called Innerworld ...

Google Street View is already a compatible app with a number of VR devices, namely Oculus Rift. The app allows users to go exploring the streets of wherever they want that has been captured and processed by Google’s imaging service. While some of the ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook is trying to pull in workplace users with a new virtual-reality app called Horizon Workrooms. Workrooms lets people meet remotely in a virtual space populated by avatars. It’s an app for Facebook’s headset, Oculus Quest ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- For those who don't think Zoom meetings are a good enough substitute for the real thing, Facebook has another idea: a virtual reality app that lets you and your coworkers feel like you're sitting around a table in a conference room.

The National Safety Council teamed up with the University of Iowa to develop a virtual reality app that gives drivers a 360-degree tour of some of the latest driver assistance systems, so they have an understanding how the technologies work before going ...