Researchers discover machines can learn by simply observing, without being told what to look for It is now possible for machines to learn how natural or artificial systems work by simply observing them, without being told what to look for, … Continue reading Learning robots
The Perfect VR Headset Is Actually Just A Hoodie Oculus is shipping its first VR headset this week. It’s a big moment, but virtual reality is still loaded with usability problems that will delay its uptake to the true mainstream: … Continue reading How to share VR
Alibaba Wants You To Shop in Virtual Reality You’ll soon shop for your next outfit in VR. Not satisfied with disrupting China’s financial transaction industry, the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba now wants to enable consumers to purchase almost anything in … Continue reading The new Chinese shopping experience
Virtual reality gets starring role at Venice film festival Venice, first of the big autumn film festivals, is the most glamorous, attracting big stars to Europe’s most beguiling location. But this year, virtual reality technology could steal the limelight from … Continue reading Jesus Christ in VR
Deepak Chopra Hopes You’ll Find Your True Self in VR I’m in a vast open space under a beautiful Bodhi tree, the green-leafed branches stretching towards the heavens. I am calmed immediately, welcomed by chirping birds and nature sounds. The … Continue reading In search of your consciousness
25 Years Later After The Crash, Web and VR Are Finally Converging For Real Twenty five years after the first consumer VR crash, virtual reality is poised to upend human-computer interaction, the Internet has disrupted every facet of life as … Continue reading Why people want to create VR for the Web
Canada woman’s lawyers turn to virtual reality in court case over pig incident Lawyers for a Canadian animal rights activist set to go on trial for giving water to pigs on a hot day plan to bring virtual reality headsets … Continue reading VR in court
Paralysis Partially Reversed With Virtual Reality Tech in Surprising New Study On June 12th, 2014, the world watched in awe as a young paraplegic kicked off the World Cup in Brazil with the help of a robotic exoskeleton controlled by … Continue reading VR rehab
Can virtual reality help close the gender pay gap? The numbers always bear repeating: Just a few months shy of what may be the election of America’s first female president, women still make 79 cents for every dollar earned by … Continue reading Simulating tough pay bargaining
Goggles on, checks away: how virtual reality is reimagining real estate sales I am sitting in a Starbucks with an architect. He hands me an Oculus virtual reality headset with a Samsung phone slipped into the goggle area. In his … Continue reading Building virtual mockups
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 