New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research suggests virtual reality (VR) may play a meaningful role in future mental-health ...

After lowering age restrictions for Quest headset users last year, Meta has announced it will now begin allowing children ages 10 to 12 to connect with others in virtual reality (VR) calls on its ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Kids aged 10 to 12 years old will need parents to sign off on the Quest users they want to interact with. Kids ...

Researchers have developed a virtual reality-based system that shows promise in improving the differentiation between common mental health conditions, potentially paving the way for earlier and more ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno Police Department is harnessing the power of virtual reality to help prepare officers for real-life scenarios. For "Chat with the Chief," we sat down with Chief ...

During a checkup with her obstetrician, Marilyn Hayes tells him about overwhelming exhaustion and possible symptoms of postpartum depression, such as feeling unsafe. Hayes, a Black woman, grows ...

You and your lover broke up a few weeks ago. Now you’re feeling lonely and miss being touched. In the past, this meant you had to psych yourself up to start dating again—taking energy you didn’t have ...

Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people ...

Because we in Silicon Valley are newness junkies, it can feel like an act of sabotage to have memories, but, for better or worse, I have them. It’s been more than forty years since I co-founded the ...

A few years ago, my good friend Lukasz Porwol, leader of the eGovernment Unit at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway, invited me to experiment with his ...