Playing a virtual reality game can increase a person's sense of altruism and influence levels of empathy, according to a new study from University of Oregon researchers. The study tracked participants ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. When Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger signed on to helm the next Resident Evil movie, it was described as "a revamp that will take the ...

Meta announced a major update for its immersive virtual world, Horizon Worlds, on Thursday that will see it leave the metaverse behind. The tech giant said it’s shifting focus for Horizon Worlds to be ...

Meta announced today that it will divorce its Horizon Worlds social and gaming service—once promoted as the company’s first major step into the metaverse—from its Quest VR headset platform and digital ...

In 2021, Facebook became Meta and the company claimed its focus would be to “bring the metaverse to life.” It launched Horizon Worlds, a VR metaverse that people could explore and create worlds in. It ...

The forthcoming Nintendo Virtual Boy accessory for Switch and Switch 2 can play VR-supported games, as reported by Video Games Chronicle. There are four available games to play, including Super Mario ...

Meta's deprioritizing virtual reality in favor of artificial intelligence and Internet-connected smart glasses has chilled the VR industry. "The market has spoken," said Jitesh Ubrani, an analyst for ...

Immersing stressed volunteers in a 360° virtual Douglas-fir forest complete with sights, sounds and scents boosted their mood, sharpened short-term memory and deepened their feeling of ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and the world, providing us with an immersive world where we could seamlessly combine digital and ...

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Meta is switching off Horizon Workrooms as a stand-alone app next month. Workrooms was launched for remote teams to collaborate in virtual reality. The move comes as Meta is laying off workers in its ...

Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people with chronic and hard-to-treat conditions. Virtual reality isn’t just for ...