The Science Behind VR Exposure Therapy Virtual reality exposure therapy works by creating controlled environments where ...

Researchers at Wayne State University and Johns Hopkins University are exploring the use of virtual reality (VR) to reduce ...

Small study finds paraplegics partially recover thanks to VR. — -- Virtual reality may mostly be used for gaming or entertainment, but researchers have discovered a stunning side-effect that ...

Autistic people are being offered the opportunity to learn to drive using virtual reality simulators. It is hoped the new scheme, part of a research project with the University of Bath and University ...

Up to 90 percent of people who have lost a limb continue to have pain where the arm or leg used to be. It's called phantom limb pain, and it can be debilitating. James Wolf lost part of his right leg ...

Police departments across the U.S. and Canada are adopting virtual reality training to better prepare officers for ...

Lindsey Whissel Fenton talks with Joseph Squillace, an associate teaching professor of cybersecurity at Penn State, about a groundbreaking project that uses virtual reality to let students safely ...

Giving autistic people the opportunity to experience a major sporting event in a safe environment is the latest project in IT supplier CGI’s virtual reality (VR) operation. The supplier’s pro bono ...

The gray virtual reality headset transforms the typical classroom into a busy virtual hospital. Gamers are not the only people benefitting from virtual reality. VR is being used by nursing programs ...

Virtual reality is moving from the gaming world to the firehouse. In a first on Long Island, the East Meadow Fire Department is using new virtual reality training to simulate life-or-death situations.

Motion sickness is a phenomenon that has been investigated for as long as humans have traveled by sea. In the 2000 years since Hippocrates wrote about the experience of seasickness, physicians and ...