Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are technologies that allow users to immerse themselves in digital worlds or ...

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A research team, led by North Carolina State University’s Dr. Mitzi M. Montoya, has developed a new way of measuring how “real” online virtual worlds are – an important advance for the emerging ...

Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and the world, providing us ...

“By advancing infrastructure and creating metaversal experiences, Improbable is not only shaping the vision of virtual societies but also providing the tools and insights for others to innovate and ...

Today’s AIs are book smart. Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart. That requires “world models.” The key is ...

The Drum speaks to digital practitioners about the use of virtual worlds such as Second Life in marketing and whether they are still relevant. With Avatar becoming the most commercially successful ...

At the end of 2025, the EU launched a research and innovation partnership for developing European-made virtual worlds. Here’s ...

Don Heider is executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. Dignity often describes the idea that every human has inherent worth and ...