Gore Verbinski’s latest, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, features one of the most terrifying AI portrayals ever seen in a ...

A new play, "An Ark", is one of the first to be created and produced for mixed reality. It recently opened in New York, but does the play herald the future of theater?

The Escapist interviewed Bobby Voicu of MixRift, an indie development studio specializing in XR games, and where he sees the technology going.

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 ...

After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of the final nails into the coffin of its metaverse efforts — the ones that were once ...

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 ...

Soldiers will travel less for training and do more virtually, Army leaders said Tuesday. The Army is planning to have soldiers “train differently” with more remote learning and other more innovative ...

The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta’s work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence. By Mike Isaac and Eli Tan Reporting from ...

This article is part of Sixth Tone Voices & Opinion’s end-of-year series reviewing how China’s AI, film, game, and VR industries evolved in 2025. Virtual reality has proven less popular than American ...

Texas A&M University researchers have found that a brief virtual reality (VR) simulation of a near-death experience can sharply reduce people's anxiety about death. In a small pilot study of about 60 ...

John Spencer views a virtual reality program as Mynd Immersive and Lyda Hill Philanthropies demonstrate a virtual reality therapy tool to seniors at Umphress Terrace in Dallas on Dec. 16, 2025. Jason ...