Communication professor Jeremy Bailenson has formatted his class COMM 166/266: “Virtual People” to take place in virtual reality (VR) after 20 years of teaching the subject and seeing the technology ...

Complex topics can be challenging both for instructors to teach and for students to learn. While instructional strategies have varied over the years, modern computer graphics environments can provide ...

The Center for Decision Research’s PIMCO Decision Research Lab continues to conduct world-class empirical research—but has transformed itself during the COVID-19 shutdown into a virtual lab in order ...

A new virtual reality lab at the University of Dayton will help students preparing for health professions study the human body in 3D and learn skills they'll use in the field. The Dave and Norma ...

Despite Zuckerberg & Co. spending billions of dollars on virtual reality tech every fiscal quarter, the wider VR startup ecosystem has been having a tough few years coming down from the highs of 2016, ...

You could Zoom call into your science class, or you could conduct a lab experiment in virtual reality. During the coronavirus pandemic, the latter has never felt more full of potential. The global ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted one of the University of Chicago’s primary missions: the advancement of scientific knowledge. When nonessential spaces closed in March to help stop the spread of ...