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Virtual Reality Starts Getting Real
Until recently, virtual reality has been the stuff of science fiction. But last year, Facebook placed a large bet on the future of the medium when it bought Oculus Rift, the leading virtual reality...
View ArticleOne of the Coolest Sci-Fi Movies of the Year Is Only 8 Minutes Long
In a creepy post-script to our recent story about virtual reality, a creative studio from Buenos Aires has released a short film imagining a world (a future?) where people escape from regular life into...
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Vets Test Virtual Reality to Conquer PTSD
Jimmy Castellanos feels like he’s back in Iraq, even though it’s been a decade since his deployment. He describes the day of an attack clearly, as each memory is transferred to a virtual world in front...
View ArticleCan a Performance Simulator Train Musicians for High-Stress Gigs?
Virtual reality technology has revolutionized the way pilots train for flight, soldiers prepare for battle and surgeons learn delicate procedures. So it might be inevitable that musicians entering the...
View ArticleCodes of Conduct
As videos of police violence continue to make headlines, a guide to filming the police as a bystander. Plus, making sense of data breaches, a lesson in coding, and a trip into the future of...
View ArticleThe Future of Storytelling Is Here
Charles Melcher of Future of Storytelling takes Bob on a tour of Sensory Stories, an exhibit of technologies that let us soar like bird, visit a refugee camp in Syria, and smell Goldilocks' porridge–...
View ArticleTech Giants See a Future in Virtual Reality
Virtual reality has the ability to take users to magical worlds beyond their wildest dreams. But these systems haven’t matched up with the hopes and aspirations held by tech enthusiasts, movie fans,...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Our Worlds Become Virtual
Virtual Reality isn’t just for video games. Second Life founder Philip Rosedale thinks VR can change everything, from business travel to biology class. Virtual Reality isn’t just for video games....
View Article8.15.15 Faith in the Unknown
This week on Innovation Hub: we dig beneath the surface. Second Life founder Philip Rosedale tells us about the virtual worlds we might soon be spending a lot of time in. Author Catherine Price...
View ArticleTalk to OTM about Virtual Reality + Journalism
If you get the New York Times Sunday edition delivered at home, this weekend you'll receive a cardboard headset along with your paper, which you can use with a smartphone to watch a virtual reality...
View ArticleWhat Was That Cardboard Thing In Our Sunday Paper?
Over the weekend, people who subscribe to the Sunday New York Times received a little gift with their good old fashioned newspaper: a virtual reality viewer. It came as an unassuming cardboard box,...
View ArticleVirtual reality might change the way you see the world
Last week, the New York Times sent 1.2 million subscribers a set of virtual reality cardboard headsets. How much does the technology really move the needle on empathy?Jeremy Bailenson, founding...
View ArticleThe Future of Media? The NYT Ventures into Virtual Reality
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.The Takeaway is rounding up the year by bringing you a series of interviews—from policy change makers to scientists and more.Jake Silverstein has...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong in Afghanistan, Novelist Richard Russo's Sequel to 'Nobody's...
Journalist Christina Lamb spent 13 years reporting in Afghanistan and Pakistan and discusses her work in, Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World. Novelist Richard Russo revisits the...
View ArticleThe Startup that's Pioneering the Future of Virtual Reality
What does the future of virtual reality look like? Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired, investigated the super-secretive company Magic Leap, which is pioneering not only virtual reality...
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The Realities of Virtual Reality
We have a confession to make...Virtual Reality? Oculus Rift? HTC Vive? Haven’t really given any of them much thought. We’re fascinated enough by, you know, actual reality.But with Mark Zuckerberg...
View ArticleVirtual Reality: The Wearable Movie?
Depending on whom you ask, virtual reality is either a world-changing force for empathy, the best videogame platform ever, or a weird thing you put on your face. But V.R.—the technology that allows a...
View ArticleReggie Watts on Virtual Reality
Is virtual reality a weird, colorful “thoughtsphere”? Or a demoralizing, sincere collective consciousness that should never not exist? Or a little bit of both? The comedian Reggie Watts, who has been...
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Scientists test use of virtual reality to diagnose pedophilia
Virtual reality is being used as a way to diagnose pedophilia. Photo via STATA handful of scientists are testing a controversial practice of using virtual reality to diagnose pedophilia in men in hopes...
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