In a paper published by the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, it is demonstrated that stylized rendering can help blur the boundary between real and virtual when it comes to immersive augmented reality applications.  One of the biggest draws in...

Amy Westervelt is an award-winning environmental journalist who has written for The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, Slate, and more. Recently she tackled the topic of virtual and augmented reality and its potential to change human behavior. In an...

Oculus VR Inc has released a draft Best Practices guide for VR developers that, in their words, seeks to maximize:  1) oculomotor comfort, 2) bodily comfort, and 3) a positive user experience. The document can be found on the Oculus...

Beyond the question of safety (Oculus' official recommendation is that children under 10 not use the Oculus Rift) and the fact that the child's IPD is probably too low to properly see through the Rift, one has to wonder...

Stanford uses their virtual reality lab to study the consequences of avatar embodiment. A ten minute presentation by the lab's director, Jeremy Bailenson, reveals some enthralling findings showing that how we see ourselves in virtual reality can measurably impact our actions in real...

Here's a neat video that the folks from Project Holodeck pointed out on their blog. Cara Santa Maria of the Huffington Post took a trip to the MxR (Mixed Reality) Lab at USC. Mark Bolas, the associate director for mixed...

Probably since the first time humans laid eyes on flying creatures we've wished we could fly ourselves. With apparent ease, birds, insects, and even some mammals take to the sky. The mere idea of flying has inspired song, art, and plenty...