Articles on Augmented reality
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If you ever felt nauseous, fatigued or disoriented after using your phone or computer, you may be experiencing a condition similar to motion sickness.
Researchers are using mixed reality technologies to investigate how people behave in in emergency situations. The findings are helping shape disaster responses.
Augmented reality has largely enjoyed cover from critique by being taken as a benign gaming technology. But recent developments suggest we need to get serious about it.
Emerging ‘mixed reality’ technology promises to bring history back to life.
Recreating the Mayflower and its crew and passengers from a few vague accounts took a lot of technical know-how.
The Oculus Quest 2 headset is the latest step in the construction of a ‘mirrorworld’ built on high-tech surveillance and targeted advertising.
What if the being responsible for creating our world wasn’t God, but some far lesser, far more fallible being like a scientist or video game designer?
From VR music festivals to immersive meeting spaces, headsets are go.
Tech companies have big plans for augmented reality, but all of them involve huge amounts of surveillance of our everyday lives.
There are more than 101 ways to immerse yourself in a foreign place, without having to leave your living room.
Powerful owls need old, hollowed-out trees to nest in, but humans keep chopping them down. Now, designers have partnered up with ecologists to build them high tech artificial nests.
New modelling techniques shed light on the ancient city of Ugarit and can help plan effective conservation.
Sex technologies and ‘erobots’ could help address issues related to human desire, and physical and emotional needs of astronauts in space.
The convergence of technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence and virtual reality may offer hope for the way we manage future bushfire disasters.
After the tragic fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, planning for an ambitious reconstruction is already underway – and the latest digital technologies will be at the forefront.
Virtual reality can be more than a mirror that gives you a realistic simulation of the current world: it can bring the past into the present.
Our attempt to bring dinosaurs to life via a smartphone app was met with excitement – then it hit a brick wall.
Before augmented reality products and apps take over the world, they’ll have to get out of their own way.
Chinese customers spend billions on Nov. 11. Why, and what does it mean for the global retail marketplace?
It’s withstood the test of time, and it’s leading people to get out of the house, travel around and spend more time with their families.



















