For decades, video games have been viewed as a sedentary pursuit, completely at odds with superior physical fitness and well-being. But the idea of leveraging virtual reality and video games to ...

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Valkyrie Industries has created a home workout unlike the DVDs and VHS tapes of the past. "We're tailoring this to the new and current generation of humans who are fixated on screens," CEO Kourosh ...

A new study published in Psychology of Popular Media indicates that exercising in virtual reality alongside prerecorded avatars can foster a genuine sense of social presence, increase feelings of ...

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For one police officer, that last step was a virtual doozy. Sgt. Cody Becker of Northern York County Regional Police was the first volunteer to wear Wrap Reality's 3D virtual-reality headset during a ...

With billions of dollars being invested in the virtual reality market, a secondary market is emerging for peripherals. In one example, those who buy a $700 Virtuix Omni multidirectional virtual ...

To teach empathy, a virtual-reality exercise has participants simulate being homeless and riding a bus. Courtesy of Virtual Human Intera Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University I’m sitting ...