Francis Williams of the Naygayiw Gigi Dance Troupe in a scene from Carriberrie.
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A new virtual reality film showing at the Australian Museum immerses viewers in remote Indigenous communities. Such films can be a path to reconciliation and understanding.
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If they get the technology right, it’s a win-win for big studios and audiences alike with this new improved entertainment experience.
The social chatroom can be used with or without a VR headset.
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A new app that combines virtual reality with a social chatroom could help push VR into the mainstream.
Season two of the Netflix series Stranger Things featured a video game called Dragron’s Lair.
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New gaming headsets promise to seamlessly integrate the digital and the physical world, but they also typically limit the vision of those digital objects to the person wearing the headset.
A 3D model of a development scenario in Brisbane’s West End produced using ESRI’s CityEngine program.
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3D urban modelling is a transformative technology for designing cities. But incorporating new technologies into planning practice has its challenges.
WayRay’s holographic AR device displays information tailored to drivers and passengers.
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Upcoming innovations suggest that 2018 might be the year when the promise of augmented reality begins to be realised.
The author on a VR waterslide in Germany. Because why not?
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Rollercoasters have grown higher, faster, loopier and they’ve even entered the virtual world. Soon you might not even need to visit a theme park to enjoy the ride.
Pleito cave site,
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A Native American tribe in California got a chance to reconnect with their past through virtual reality models of inaccessible, sacred sites.
Individuals wearing virtual reality headsets often look isolated. But research shows they can experience profound emotions such as awe, which enhance their feelings of social connection and wellbeing.
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Research shows that virtual reality experiences can help social disconnection and improve wellness - by inspiring awe.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces the launch of Oculus Go virtual reality headset in October.
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Will the arrival and popularity of Oculus Go and other VR systems make us think differently about alternative realities and so-called alternative facts?
So, will VR dating be a thing?
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Online dating has been around for more than 20 years, but for the most part, the goal has been to eventually meet your new paramour face to face. Virtual reality could change that.
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We’re told VR will let distant audiences experience live shows from the comfort of their living room – but what if no one goes anymore?
There are real consequences to ignoring children’s pain in hospital. These include increased sensitivity to pain, abnormal social behaviours when older and higher levels of anxiety before a future procedure.
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From broken limbs to blood tests, hospital visits can cause unnecessary pain for children. An emergency care pediatrician offers seven easy strategies for parents to lessen this pain.
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What will the future of film look like?
This picture of a reconstruction of a hominin skull is one of a variety of multimedia that can be experienced in the Origins Virtual Reality experience.
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Bringing the past into a digital space creates so much more overt space for interpretation and different narratives.
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Anxieties about hoodlums in cars was just another expression of an age-old fear of change.
In school makerspaces, students problem-solve with traditional craft materials alongside.
digital technologies such as 3D printing, virtual reality, programmable robots and video work.
Creative makerspaces in Ontario schools weave passion with digital technologies to teach 21st century skills.
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Theatre is undergoing a virtual revolution.
Bioblocks, created for the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon.
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Research is not just about producing papers.
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Virtual reality has been used to treat phobias for many years, but medical researchers have began to discover that it can do so much more than that.