Immersive virtual reality—digital technology that allows a person to experience being physically present in a non-physical world—seems to ease the pain and distress felt by patients with cancer, ...

While the world’s hi-tech policy attention (including mine) has been focused on generative artificial intelligence (AI), the closely related technology of advanced virtual reality — I’ll call it Total ...

I crawled through a vent with a loaded weapon in hand, hoping a creature wasn’t waiting up ahead. There was a clang in the vent behind. I panicked, spun around to face what was coming, and bumped my ...

Motion sickness is a phenomenon that has been investigated for as long as humans have traveled by sea. In the 2000 years since Hippocrates wrote about the experience of seasickness, physicians and ...

It’s been roughly a year since Mark Zuckerberg laid out his ambitious plans to found a futuristic new world existing purely in a digital space. Acknowledging this new construct did not yet “fully ...

Immersive virtual reality (VR) may alleviate pain and distress in cancer patients, according to a comprehensive analysis of existing evidence in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. The technology also ...