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Augmented reality has largely enjoyed cover from critique by being taken as a benign gaming technology. But recent developments suggest we need to get serious about it.
A game world is an immersive fantasy world that is created with the intention of promoting interaction with its environment.
VR treatment can overcome many of the challenges of traditional therapy.
Information about the Holocaust may be easy to find online, but the best sites offer artifacts and authentic accounts from people who survived the experience, a Holocaust scholar argues.
Emerging 'mixed reality' technology promises to bring history back to life.
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly common across aspects of our lives. But what role should it play in how we find love?
With our travel wings clipped and cities under lockdown, heritage buildings have found new ways for us to fly over rooftops and zoom in on wallpaper.
How much does your virtual reality headset know about your life?
Recreating the Mayflower and its crew and passengers from a few vague accounts took a lot of technical know-how.
The Oculus Quest 2 headset is the latest step in the construction of a 'mirrorworld' built on high-tech surveillance and targeted advertising.
The success of the virtual road race shows how quickly esports are moving into the mainstream.
The performing arts sector will need to change after the pandemic. This new venture is a glimpse of how it might look.
From VR music festivals to immersive meeting spaces, headsets are go.
How one filmmaker is trying to capture the visceral experience of an abusive relationship to foster understanding and empathy, and prevent further abuse.
There are more than 101 ways to immerse yourself in a foreign place, without having to leave your living room.
COVID-19 has hit the film industry hard, but some enterprising film-makers are already plotting ways to cope with the 'new normal'.
Touring a college in person may be out of the question for a while due to COVID-19. Can virtual reality tours fill the void?
The bestselling novel turned film exposes paradoxes of fixing a broken system with its own tools. As we collectively meditate on the world's problems, why not imagine better worlds?
The immersive future of live cinema is already being written.
Top contributors
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Researcher in Virtual Reality, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Chair in Interactive Multimedia Systems, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Screen Media, King's College London
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Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Nottingham
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, SOAR Fellow., University of Sydney
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Associate Professor - Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England
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Amusement academic and disruptive media researcher, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Community College Leadership, Mississippi State University
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Honorary Associate in Philosophy, University of Sydney
