To create this illusion, the software tracks the real-time orientation of the laptop screen and the position of the observer, essential logistics for making virtual objects look realistic from any ...

Apple devices such as "Apple Glass" may integrate real-world objects into Apple AR or VR experiences, specifically to avoid the wearer colliding with them.

To help avoid colliding with real-world objects, the VR device could determine the distance between itself and a physical object. An example of the virtual view that a user might see. Credit: Apple ...

The authors hypothesized that because real objects afford genuine actions (i.e., grasping) they should be more powerful competitors for attention than 2-D or 3-D images of the same objects (which ...

I SLIP on the virtual reality headset, expecting the real world to vanish. Instead, something odd happens: I can still see the room I’m in, but it’s slightly blurry. I look down at my ...

Utah-based The Void is building virtual reality theme parks, with the first expected to open in Utah next year. Players wear a VR headset and walk around a virtual environment (shown).

There’s been considerable research into creating VR controllers that let users touch and feel virtual objects as if they were real, but the SpinOcchio might be the most awkward of them all.

Enter Wolverine, a wearable haptic interface that allows its user to "feel" an object that they are holding in virtual reality. The device was created by Inrak Choi and his team from the SHAPE Lab ...