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Virtual reality to help with anorexia
What do I look like when I am at a healthy weight? This is the experience anorexics should have with VR. Scientists...
Virtual reality to detect ADHD symptoms in children
The diagnosis of ADHD is difficult. To make it easier, researchers from Finland are using virtual reality and...
Experiencing dying with VR
Nobody knows death. Nevertheless, an Australian artist is attempting to experience dying by means of virtual reality as part of an exhibition....
Rec Room works on full-body avatars
The social app Rec Room plans to introduce full-body avatars. Rec Room had a comparable number of users. In contrast to...
VR with smell against loneliness and boredom for astronauts
US researchers are working on scents for virtual reality worlds. The scents in VR are intended to improve the mental health of astronauts....
VR to bring memories of Auschwitz survivors closer to young people
Holocaust survivors met at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on the 78th anniversary of liberation. In the...
AR glasses for better spatial orientation
Researchers at the University of Konstanz looked into special glasses that could improve spatial orientation and prevent falls....
EU invites to 380,000 franc Metaverse party - only six people show up
An expensive, virtual party in the European Union's Metaverse was supposed to inspire young people for its politics. But only...
Theatre & VR: Wittgenstein's Mistress for the first time in Germany
The Staatstheater Augsburg continues its innovative stage programme: the novel Wittgenstein's Mistress was brought to the theatre as a hybrid performance....
Holo-Light: Startup to Netflix for VR and AR
The start-up Holo-Light wants to become the leading "Netflix for VR and AR". In a podcast episode, two of the...
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