Virtual and augmented reality technologies have many benefits, and each one can offer something different. When it comes to VR devices, they can be used for any number of immersive experiences ...

What is the difference between AR and VR? While seemingly similar, augmented reality and virtual reality are very different technologies. Virtual reality or VR replicates an environment (real or ...

This is why people working in VR, like Facebook, are working so hard to make VR more social. Google’s Daydream platform allows you to watch videos together in virtual reality, for example.

Mixed reality—which is sometimes abbreviated to MR, although that’s not as widely accepted an acronym as VR or AR—is when VR goggles incorporate augmented reality features.

There's the Virtual Reality-style headsets to compete with HTC Vive or PlayStation VR, and the Augmented Reality-style headset we know as Hololens. For Microsoft, there's a lot of space in between ...

The difference between AR and VR is pretty straightforward. One merges with the outside world while the other presents a totally virtual environment.

The history of augmented reality is interesting. A Boeing researcher, Thomas Caudell, created the term in 1990 when he was assigned to replace the expensive process used to assist factory workers.

By 2015, Google officially stopped supporting Google Glass, and augmented reality seemed like it had stalled out. I counted myself among the the major believers of VR, after getting a press ...

Virtual-reality or VR headsets set you right in the center of an often eerily real-looking 3-D world. Here I am thinking I'm sitting on a New York rooftop watching a modern dancer.

Tech Times differentiated virtual reality (VR) from augmented reality (AR) in 2014, even going so far as to predict which of the two technologies would more likely succeed.