Virtual science lab startup Labster bags $10M to accelerate its ed tech play Ed tech startup Labster whose software platform enables virtual simulations of laboratories for teaching life science to students, has closed a $10 million Series A round of … Continue reading Simulating research
Smile, you’re in augmented reality dentistry For someone getting major dental work or reconstructive surgery, it can be hard to visualize what they’ll look like afterwards. You can do casts and make wax molds, but that’s a bit… 19th century, … Continue reading The virtual mirror
Doctors are saving lives with VR Earlier this year, inside a cramped, windowless corner office at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, I put on a virtual reality headset and tried to save a little girl’s life. It wasn’t real, of … Continue reading Virtual health
Virtual reality helps car buyers pick right model in a sea of choices The price list for the first-ever VW Golf was a simple leaflet. These days though, buyers interested in purchasing a Golf have to browse through a catalogue … Continue reading Choosing a car
CEO Sleepout criticised as ‘dystopian’ for homeless simulation with VR headsets A Sydney fundraising event for the homeless has been labelled “dystopian” after it asked CEOs to don virtual reality headsets to “get a glimpse” of life on the streets. … Continue reading Being homeless
AI Agents Learn to Work Together by Wrangling Virtual Swine Wrangling a pig—even a virtual one—is much easier if you get a friend to help. This much seems clear from a contest organized by Microsoft researchers to test how artificially … Continue reading AI and simulations
The empathy machine: can VR stop bad city developments before they happen? When I first meet him near Euston station in central London, the Norwegian architect Haavard Tveito is carrying a copy of Ernest Cline’s dystopian novel Ready Player One. … Continue reading Making people more human
