AR & VR

Early-stage startup Wist Labs is developing a VR app that converts smartphone clips into 3D videos users can step inside.

Connect 2022 brought Meta’s vision of the future of work into sharper focus, with the reveal of a new headset, a major partnership, and more.

A VR-controlled medical triage robot is being built to help trained techs attend to injured soldiers on the battlefield.

Colleges and universities are keen to jump on the metaverse bandwagon, even before knowing what the metaverse really is.

Exposure therapy is a reliable technique for overcoming irrational fears, but it currently suffers high patient dropout rates.

Google can make AI seem sentient, but the AI has no understanding of what it is saying. But humans are easily fooled by conversational AI.

Virtual and augmented reality have had false starts, but AR eyewear will soon replace the smartphone as our interface for digital content.

People are paying millions of dollars to buy plots of pixellated land in virtual worlds, even though they doesn’t fully exist yet.

Technology that merges the virtual and physical worlds could start to become a reality for consumers in just a few years.

Web 3.0 and the metaverse both describe the internet of the future, but they aren’t the same thing — this is your guide to each.

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