Tackling the Obesity Crisis with VR
Approximately 69 billion euros is spent on healthcare issues related to dealing with overweight or obese patients in Europe every year. Obesity increases the likelihood of [...]
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Frontiers in Virtual Reality Seminar Series 3: Fostering inclusion and social interaction in XR
Online Seminar Series Inclusion, accessibility, and social interaction in virtual and augmented reality environments is key to ensure the success of the deployment of this [...]
For less than $10, anyone can now get up close and explore single cells in VR
By Colm Gorey, Science Communications Manager 3D rendered medically accurate illustration of a cancer cell (not representative of what’s seen using singlecellVR). [...]
Researchers’ VR walking simulator feels surprisingly close to the real thing
By Colm Gorey, Frontiers science writer Image: wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock.com Researchers in Japan have developed a virtual reality platform that mimics the sensation of [...]
Frontiers in Virtual Reality – Online Seminar Series
The Editorial board of Frontiers in Virtual Reality is pleased to present a series of virtual seminars on virtual and augmented reality. [...]
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
People rate their own bodies as more attractive when viewed from a third-person perspective: Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]
To the frontiers of virtual reality
Professor Mel Slater (University of Barcelona) leads new journal Frontiers in Virtual Reality [...]
What goes up may actually be down
Researchers use virtual reality to show that people anticipate the force of gravity by “seeing it” through visual cues rather than “feeling it”: Frontiers in Neuroscience [...]
Virtual reality field trips to inspire climate action
Stanford researchers took a virtual reality experience into a variety of educational settings, including high school classrooms, to test the impact on awareness and understanding of ocean acidification; Frontiers in Psychology [...]
Good news for immersive journalism: look at your audience
A new study in collaboration with the BBC finds that users feel more engaged in a virtual reality news experience when virtual characters acknowledge them - even by simple gaze; Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]
Seeing yourself as Einstein may change the way you think
A virtual reality simulation of having Albert Einstein's body reduces age stereotypes and can enhance cognitive performance: Frontiers in Psychology [...]
Virtual avatar-to-avatar interviews may improve eyewitness testimony
Interviews in virtual reality may increase the accuracy and amount of recalled information: Frontiers in Psychology [...]
What happens when technology opens up the brain — and its information?
Limbo, a novel by neurosurgeon and inventor Eric Leuthardt, explores what happens when neurotechnology is used for nefarious purposes. [...]
Virtual coasts improve understanding of possible coastal planning outcomes
A simulation described in Frontiers in Marine Science helps people to assess the aesthetic aspects of proposed coastal developments and their effect on the marine environment. [...]
Virtual humans can identify post-traumatic stress in soldiers
Soldiers are more likely to open up to a computer-generated virtual interviewer than by taking a survey, say researchers in Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]
Self-driving cars may soon be able to make moral and ethical decisions as humans do
Can a self-driving vehicle be moral, act like humans do, or act like humans expect humans to? New study has found that human morality can be modeled. [...]
Immersive journalism in a post-truth world
Frontiers in Digital Humanities research analyzes the rise of immersive journalism and its challenges [...]
Changing the self through immersive Virtual Reality: an interview with Mel Slater
“I still find immersive Virtual Reality as thrilling now as when I first tried it 20 years ago,” writes Professor Mel Slater, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers [...]
Everything that we see or seem: The secrets behind virtual reality
Frontiers Science Hero: Mel Slater from Frontiers on Vimeo. Prof. Mel Slater has always been intrigued by the science that lies behind virtual reality. “I think one of the [...]