Had the “learn’d astronomer’s” charts and theorems inspired the 19th century writer Walt Whitman as much as strolling under the nighttime sky, Whitman might have become an astrophysicist instead of a ...

The walls of Diana Ford’s classroom dissolve into an open field as she puts on a pair of Oculus Rift goggles. Within the artificial realm created by the Oculus Rift headset, Ford chases after a ball ...

When it comes to emerging technologies, there’s a lot to keep newsrooms busy. Virtual reality has promise, and so do chatbots. Ditto, too, for connected cars and connected homes. In fact, the ...

Whether it is the Iron Man heads-up display in his suit or the virtual-reality, holographic-like display on which he moves around inventions and objects with the flick of a wrist, many of us are eager ...

Virtual reality means creating immersive, computer-generated environments that are so convincing users will react the same way they would in real life. The idea is to block out the sensory input from ...

“Hi, Julie,” called Rana Tuncer, a senior computer science major at the University of Delaware. No, Tuncer was not greeting a fellow peer — she was interacting with a computer-generated patient while ...