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Microscopy and VR Illuminate New Ways to Prevent and Treat Disease

July 18, 2019

Innovation enables better visualization and interpretation of data from cell microscopy

Virtual Reality Takes a Leap into Taste

June 26, 2019

Researchers develop the optoPAD, a system that creates "virtual taste realities"

How Usable Is Virtual Reality?

May 22, 2019

A computer scientist at the University of Göttingen develops automated process for finding out the effectiveness of virt...

Crime Fighting Just Got Easier

May 20, 2019

The use of virtual reality to observe offenders undertaking residential burglary is reaping rewards, giving researchers preci...

Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Treat Autism

March 28, 2019

Virtual reality games could help individuals with certain neurological conditions shift their perceptions of time

Virtual Reality Could Improve Your Balance, Study Finds

March 20, 2019

Virtual Reality technology could become an efficient tool for older people with balance problems or for rehabilitation

Army Researchers Explore Benefits of Immersive Technology for Soldiers

January 17, 2019

There is currently little evidence in the scientific literature that using immersive technology provides any measurable benef...

Eating with Your Eyes: Virtual Reality Can Alter Taste

October 16, 2018

Virtual reality shows how people's perception of real food can be altered by their surroundings

Virtual Reality Can Reduce Pain and Increase Performance During Exercise

October 2, 2018

The data showed that after a minute, the VR group had reported a pain intensity that was 10% lower than the non-VR group...

People Recall Information Better Through Virtual Reality, Says New UMD Study

June 14, 2018

Researchers conducted one of the first in-depth analyses on whether people recall information better through virtual reality,...

Take a Fantastic 3-D Voyage through the Brain with New Immersive Virtual Reality System

November 15, 2017

Put your head inside a brain!

A Better 3D Camera with Clear, Graphene Light Detectors

March 3, 2016

While other 3D cameras are currently on the market, the new design should be smaller and able to achieve higher resolutions....

A New World of Experimentation

February 9, 2016

Models and simulations continue to connect the real lab space with the virtual world

Professors Study the Legal, Social Complexities of an Augmented Reality Future

November 6, 2015

Though it has its benefits, AR will also bring challenges for law, public policy and privacy

Virtual Reality

April 2, 2015

Communicating the final design of a laboratory to the principal investigators and their research teams can be chall...

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