"The experience even works when they are lying fully flat."

Airline tests VR entertainment — but only for first class passengers

Special Treatment

British Airways is testing a range of new VR entertainment features for select first class flights between London's Heathrow airport and JFK in New York.

Airline Tests VR Entertainment — But Only For First Class Passengers

Now first class passengers won't even have to look at the economy class proles.

Talespin's Virtual Human Technology

The AI character's reaction can range from quiet sobs to angry yelling.

This company creates virtual people for you to fire in VR

You're Fired

VR training company Talespin has created Barry, an artificially intelligent virtual reality character managers can practice firing over and over again.

This Company Creates Virtual People for You to Fire in VR

You can fire Barry again... and again... and again.

A study found that VR could make people feel like they actually inhabited a spider or bat's body.

Bizarre new VR makes people feel like they're spiders

Eight Legs, Imagine

A new experiment used VR to trick people's brains into thinking they inhabited spider or bat bodies. People reported feeling like the body was theirs.

Bizarre New VR Makes People Feel Like They’re Spiders

VR makes it easy to trick the brain into thinking it has a non-human body.

It could be a big step toward truly immersive VR.

Smart glove lets you grip virtual objects

Immersion

A new smart glove makes VR more immersive by making the virtual objects people touch feel as though they're really there.

Smart Glove Lets You Grip Virtual Objects

The glove helps you "feel" whatever you're grabbing in virtual reality.

Real Pastor In Virtual Reality Baptizes An Anime Girl

See how tech is transforming even humanity's oldest institutions.

Watch a real pastor baptize an anime girl in virtual reality

Religious Rite

In a new video, a pastor baptizes a YouTuber's anime-style avatar in virtual reality, putting a high-tech twist on a centuries-old religious rite.

Watch a Real Pastor Baptize an Anime Girl in Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is putting a high-tech twist on a millennia-old tradition.

Robot vs Human Combat | James Bruton

The video game feels so real it leaves bruises.

This robot bludgeons you with boxing gloves while you play games

Realism

An engineer built a robot that tries to punch him in real life while he fights a digital robot in a virtual reality video game.

This Robot Bludgeons You With Boxing Gloves While You Play Games

Finally, a truly immersive virtual reality experience.

"Even though their obedience isn’t genuine, those who persist endure additional stress compared to those who decide to quit."

People are horrified when they have to torture a virtual person

Simulated Shocks

In a virtual recreation of the infamous Milgram Shock Experiment, participants were just as reluctant to continue, even though no one was hurt.

People Are Horrified When They Have to Torture a Virtual Person

Even in a VR simulation, the Milgram Shock Experiment continues to traumatize.

"We can make small changes to make big changes."

Expert: VR headsets should have brain interfaces

VR Gaming

Mike Abinder, in-house psychologist and researcher for Valve, talked about exciting possibilities of adding brain-computer interfaces to VR headsets.

Expert: VR Headsets Should Have Brain Interfaces

Brain-computer interfaces could make VR gaming way more immersive.

The Synthetic Training Environment

"This would enable the Army to conduct virtual training and complex simulations anywhere on a virtual representation of the Earth."

The U.S. Army is using virtual reality combat to train soldiers

Virtual Combat

More details emerge about the U.S. Army's virtual reality combat training simulations, which a software developer says is ramping up its scale.

The U.S. Army Is Using Virtual Reality Combat to Train Soldiers

The virtual battlefield can simulate millions of "intelligent entities."

I spent a week in a VR headset, here's what happened

Inside virtual reality, you're never alone.

This guy spent a whole week In a VR headset

A Week in VR

Jak Wilmot, co-founder of Disrupt VR, an Atlanta-based VR content studio, spent 168 consecutive hours in a VR headset, locked up in his apartment.

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