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A new study asked people to imagine how virtual reality could change pornography, with some occasionally bizarre results.
If this spider is making you feel extremely anxious, sweaty or uncomfortable, exposure therapy might help.
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Many people with phobias are understandably reluctant to face their fears. But gradual exposure using virtual reality headsets can help with everything from a fear of spiders, heights or flying.
William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) entering a Holodeck simulation.
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The technology needed to create a real Star Trek-like Holodeck is not that far out of reach.
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Virtual reality holds huge potential for advertisers but we should all take note of its potential for manipulation.
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We asked five design experts – what’s your favorite product of all time, and why?
Full-body projection of a witness on glass.
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Augmented reality and holographic projections could hold benefits for victims testifying against sexual assault.
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Detaching from the physical world may make for deeper bonds.
What’s the bet they didn’t buy one?
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TV manufacturers have turned their backs on 3D technology. But there’s a new technology hoping to win over viewers, and you don’t need to buy a new TV.
A still image from Orbital Venus.
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An Australian virtual reality work premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this week takes the viewer on a wild ride through space.
Emerging digital technologies are being used in thoughtful ways by teachers.
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We are now seeing technology being designed with education in mind, and it’s changing the way students’ learn and understand.
In virtual reality cinema, the audience chooses what to look at and when. What does this mean for traditional narrative storytelling?
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VR cinema explodes the frame, placing the spectator inside the space of the film. Audiences effectively edit it themselves, by choosing what to look at and when.
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This will be the year when the Internet of Things becomes intelligent – and useful.
Virtual encounters are getting ever more realistic.
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If you find your partner having a virtual relationship with someone else – or with a computer-generated individual – is that the same as adultery?
Goggle Glass: what not to do.
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Apple can learn a lot from Google Glass and other augmented reality glasses.
Would you want to be operated on by a surgeon whose only anatomy training was using virtual reality?
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Medical students are using virtual reality to help them learn anatomy. But is it the game changing technology some people say it is?
How do you defend yourself in virtual reality?
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Underlying online harassment is the false idea that events that happen on internet aren’t real. But whenever people are interacting, it’s all real.
Real or Fake?
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ABBA are reportedly planning a ‘virtual and live experience’. What might this actually entail?
A virtual reality scene – one for each eye – of a haunted ride.
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The virtual reality rides of the early 20th century are now being documented in digital VR.
When will computers and humans interact fully?
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A long historical progression has brought technology to the masses – and will expand our capabilities as far as we can imagine.
Collisions director Lynette Wallworth used drones and 360 degree filming to create a totally immersive experience.
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What if your first contact with the Western world was witnessing an atomic test? This is the story of Nyarri Nyarri Morgan, told in stunning virtual reality in animation/documentary hybrid Collisions.