Picture yourself taking an elevator to the top of a 480-foot tower. The doors part and there you are, facing a feeble wooden plank jutting out into space. Your challenge: Walk all the way to the end, ...

You’re standing in an empty room that’s all of a sudden transformed into a new world, complete with ground, sky, chirping birds and even other people. But try moving around or waving your hands, and ...

My first steps into the virtual world of “Richie’s Plank Experience” put me in a compact elevator, which then opened onto a ledge with a wooden plank more than 500 feet in the air. I could feel the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The metaverse is the future. But really, it's already here. It's a whole digital world, accessible right now by clunky, big goggles that will only get smaller and better. It’s a 4d ...

Walking the plank that stands hundreds of feet high in the middle of a city. Fighting for your life as aliens shoot at you from space. Safe to say, these are experiences you probably haven’t had ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

The story “Pygmalion's Spectacles,” written in the 1930s, is about wearing a pair of goggles to travel to a fictional world. Now, almost 90 years later, virtual reality has turned that fiction into a ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with virtual reality researcher Jeremy Bailenson about his new book Experience on Demand. And she also tries some... Just How Real Is Virtual Reality? LULU ...

The experimental setup. (A) Outside view of the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) device during experimentation. (B) Third-person perspective on the forest glade and the two bridge piers with ...