Augmented, Alternate and Virtual Realities in Education

Despite all the hype in recent years about the potential for virtual reality in education, an emerging technology known as mixed reality has fa

In our 2018 Teaching with Technology Survey, faculty members told us about their most-wanted hardware and software, feelings on tech's value for learning, technologies they're using in class and more.

Faculty in our 2017 Teaching with Technology Survey believe tech will play a positive role in the future of higher education — but some technologies will be more important than others.

HANCOCK — Attendees of Tuesday night’s Copper Country Intermediate School District (CCISD) board meeting had a chance to try a state-of-the-art virtual real

Expeditioners at Australia's Antarctic stations are using virtual reality to help them cope during months of isolation — and the research could be used for astronauts going to Mars.

Four Indigenous teenagers create a futuristic digital world from their remote community with a new virtual reality film Future Dreaming.

Facebook unveiled a wireless virtual-reality headset called Oculus Quest, an attempt to help popularize the developing technology.

All Walmart stores are set to get Oculus Go headsets in order to help train staff using virtual reality. At a cost of $200 per headset and 17,000 required, this is a training initiative costing Walmart well over $3 million to deploy.

In a pilot program at Berkeley College, members of a Virtual Reality Faculty Interest Group tested the use of virtual reality to immerse students in a variety of learning experiences. During winter 2018, seven different instructors in nearly as many disciplines used inexpensive Google Cardboard headsets along with apps on smartphones to virtually place students in North Korea, a taxicab and other environments as part of their classwork.

At Washington College, students become curators, using augmented reality to create museum exhibits of materials that otherwise require restricted physical access.

Are you dreaming that you're awake or are you living in a computer simulation? There might be no way to be sure.

New looks at challenges through fresh eyes. That’s especially true for midwife Dr Donovan Jones and his team, Shanna Fealy and Associate Professor Rohan Walker. With the assistance of Craig Williams of the IT Innovation team they seek to bring Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality to the age-old experience of childbirth—and through these technologies, teach future midwives to save newborn lives.

British Cycling has confirmed eRacing Championships will begin in February as the sport taps into the growing esports market

Last month Facebook announced the next generation of its VR headset technology, and though the previous models have not caught on widely amon

Mind wandering engages the same neural pathways used to receive stimuli from the real world, evoking emotions similar to real life. VR can elicit these same feelings.

From Japanese anime characters to Barbie, virtual YouTubers talk and act just like people — and they could change the way we all interact forever.

Sansar, the VR platform by Second Life creator Linden Lab, is now available for everyone to explore. The public "creator beta" follows a private "creato

A new virtual reality experience, designed to immerse users in a playground and classroom as a child with hearing loss, is helping to foster empathy in parents, teachers and other students.

An Educause project is examining the integration of 3D technologies — 3D scanning and printing, virtual reality and augmented reality — into education to create "extended reality."