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Virtual reality can allow teachers and students to explore coral reefs or the inside of cells without leaving the classroom.
Technology aside, we humans are still suckers for a good story.
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It seems while the world has changed enormously since the industrial revolution, we haven’t: we still love stories. And there’s something sweet, and very human, about that.
Virtual reality can bring historical sites to life.
Virtual reality can be more than a mirror that gives you a realistic simulation of the current world: it can bring the past into the present.
Sex with robots will increase, as technological developments produce new love interests.
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Developments in technologies like robotics and virtual reality are opening new possibilities for sexual experiences.
Bannockburn’s Battle Room.
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Want to travel to 1314 and see Robert the Bruce slaying an English knight? Why step this way, madam.
Virtual Reality technology opens up new experiences and possibilities in music for people with disabilities.
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Tailored VR technology is helping creating digital musical instruments that musicians with disabilities can play.
Mixed reality can enhance teaching in ways not possible with pen and paper, or even virtual reality.
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Instead of holograms replacing teachers, we’re seeing teachers using holograms to enhance the learning experience, particularly in disciplines such as health sciences and medicine.
Wild game.
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Games have come a long way since their genesis in the 1970s. Today, games designers consult with ecologists and other experts to create worlds that feel alive and real.
Students at Person High School use cardboard goggles to take a virtual tour of University of North Carolina campuses.
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A new virtual campus tour project in North Carolina could change the way students in rural or otherwise remote areas are able to ‘see’ prospective colleges without ever leaving their high schools.
Is that Pikachu on the street right next to you?
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Before augmented reality products and apps take over the world, they’ll have to get out of their own way.
Participants in a virtual reality travel experience reported a sense of relaxation, similar to that gained from travel in real life.
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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.
Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?
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Are you dreaming that you’re awake or are you living in a computer simulation? There might be no way to be sure.
Some of the roller coasters on offer at Seaworld in Orlando, Florida.
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Steel roller coasters remain hugely popular. But virtual reality is becoming an increasingly important addition to the industry.
VAR is already proving controversial at this year’s World Cup.
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VAR is part of a wider trend of digitalisation that threatens to make football less natural and spontaneous.
360-degree cameras are one of several innovative filming technologies being applied for science education at the National University of Singapore.
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360-degree cameras are one of several innovative filming technologies being applied for science education at the National University of Singapore.
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We’ve never needed Oculus Rift to provide immersive experiences – they’ve been around for as long as we have.
Virtual reality is helping train counter-terrorism officers.
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Virtual reality, augmented reality and serious games can help train people to respond to terrorism and kidnappings.
Food hygiene and virtual reality could go hand in hand.
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As incidents of food-borne illnesses increase, virtual reality could help better train food hygiene
Could there be a future with smaller, less bulky VR headsets?
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Using nanostructures on a flat piece of glass can make lenses smaller, lighter and much cheaper – while providing better image quality.
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In this vision of the future, everything that we currently do in the real world – going to school, going to work, socialising, leisure – is done in a vast virtual environment.