SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc will acquire two-year-old Oculus VR Inc, a maker of virtual-reality glasses for gaming, for $2 billion, buying its way into the fast-growing wearable ...

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Philip Witten’s first trip to the virtual world came at a high price. The 21-year-old found himself fighting for his avatar’s life, immersed in a game on a friend’s virtual-reality device ...

Scientists have created virtual reality goggles - for mice. Cornell University researchers built the tiny eyepieces - called ...

Tiny virtual reality goggles for mice create convincing worlds that allow scientists to study the animals’ brain activity in a range of scenarios. The technology takes rodent neuroscience closer ...

When the researchers started placing the virtual reality goggles on mice, they said, the rodents immediately explored the grassy plain. Every day for about a week, the mice wore the goggles for ...

Why, you might ask, would you want to taste someone else’s fish soup? Mr. Jia points out that it’s commonplace to be able to see and hear what’s going on far away.

Dairy farmers in Russia are putting virtual reality headsets on their cows to encourage them to eat more grass. Of course, we initially thought this rather amoosing story was a load of bull, but ...

Researchers hope virtual reality goggles could increase empathy for LGBTQ+ people Some say immersive 3D films can create an "empathy machine" to benefit marginalized groups, but others are skeptical.

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Students in the Borderland will soon be to view virtual exhibits at the El Paso Holocaust Museum. The Junior League of El Paso donated 500 virtual reality goggles ...

Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) wears virtual reality goggles and practices for the unlikely emergency scenario of becoming untethered ...