Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are technologies that allow users to immerse themselves in digital worlds or enhance their surroundings with computer-generated filters or images, ...

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 ...

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

The concept of a game within a game has evolved significantly since its inception in the 1980s, with some games set entirely in digital worlds to replicate the feeling of being in cyberspace. This ...

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 ...