Marine Institute's grad student Ashlea Burrows is using virtual reality to look at how effective firefighting training is and the CBC’s Elizabeth Whitten has a try.

Many people survive a stroke but continue to struggle with an arm or hand that does not work as it once did. A new ...

Researchers at TU Graz are using virtual reality and large language models to support people with autism spectrum disorder in training social skills. The system is intended to make treatment options ...

A new study led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and St. Joseph's University found that an innovative virtual reality intervention was helpful for improving interactions between ...

Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people with chronic and hard-to-treat conditions. Virtual reality isn’t just for ...

After a shift stocking coffee beans at grocery stores around Birmingham, Sarah Stewart sits in her mother’s office chair and logs into a virtual world. She straps on virtual reality goggles and ...

You look down, and something feels wrong. The hands in front of you are not the ones you are used to, and when you catch your reflection, it is a different face that meets your gaze—one capable of ...

A recent study suggests that 65 percent of our daily behaviours are done on “autopilot,” meaning that we do them without thinking. These automatic behaviours occur because they are the result of a ...

Virtual reality headsets and “immersive” real-life scenarios are being used to better prepare police officers responding to ...

A new $3.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health is helping UC Santa Barbara scholars reimagine how virtual reality can support older adults who are aging at home — and the family ...

Imagine the first time you visit Nashville, Tennessee, you commission a private helicopter tour. You gaze down on the gleaming glass buildings of its contemporary skyline, its neighborhood ball fields ...

VANCOUVER — Paolo Ceccarelli furrows his brow and tells me to flip off my dark blue baseball hat before lifting a large white headset over my mess of hair. My new grey strands give Canada’s goalkeeper ...