The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly prompted the adoption of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies as businesses have turned to remote work. Overall, global spending on AR and VR ...

Virtual reality is redefining what is possible in the healthcare industry. Patients are already benefiting from advanced and more precise surgeries, simulations for mental illness treatments and many ...

Imagine an engineer who begins her morning inside a fully immersive virtual factory, rearranging production lines with a ...

Soft skills are increasingly gaining importance in the contemporary workplace, and virtual reality can help employees improve their soft skills by placing them in lifelike simulations where they ...

Future Apple AR devices, such as "Apple Glass," may include holograms to make moving through virtual environments feel more natural. Apple has already very many patents and patent applications ...

Why Snap, Unity, Xreal, and Texas A&M University are among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in augmented and virtual reality for 2025. Innovative organizations are finding ways to make ...

Apple launched its ARKit development tool for iOS 11 in 2017. Brands have since deployed augmented reality as a novelty add-on to their mobile apps. But the use of AR is growing, driven by advances in ...

While use of the gaming technology for improving physical ailments is still in the early stages, it shows promise — and it’s fun. By Alina Tugend See more of our coverage in your search ...

Some care facilities are giving older adults a way to visit their pasts to boost their well-being. By Matt Fuchs John Faulkner, 76, was becoming emotionally withdrawn before he arrived at Central ...

The growth of virtual, augmented and mixed realities -- collectively referred to as extended reality (XR) -- has created a divide. On one side of the divide are users and providers, while legal ...