Axon, the company best known for its Taser stun guns, has announced the acquisition of VR studio Foundry 45 which it says will bolster its VR training offerings. Founded in 1993, Axon is the company ...

As both a pilot and VR expert, there is no way I could ignore the topic of flight training in virtual reality. Although this niche seems rather narrow, VR is a breakthrough technology for pilot ...

When Derek Belch was a kicker on Stanford’s football team in 2007, he took a class with the Virtual Human Interaction Lab’s Jeremy Bailenson where he was exposed to virtual reality technologies for ...

Biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific has equipped its Greenville, North Carolina, manufacturing facility with virtual reality (VR) capabilities as part of a $55 million investment, Contract Pharma ...

The education industry today is facing a major challenge. Should educational facilities and businesses embrace modern technology in their training programs? More often than not, technological progress ...

Virtual reality is an increasingly common part of worker training, from hospitals to coal mines and athletic fields. Now, employers also are tapping VR to help recruit and retain employees with ...

Safe training and updating the skills of tenured employees is complicated. It is also costly and can be largely ineffective in imparting lasting knowledge. Traditional training methods are simply ...

Some scenarios are impossible to realistically recreate in training. A trainee surgeon can read all of the books he likes on medicine and observe other surgeons performing procedures, but neither will ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Both virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology are commonly thought of as consumer technology that empowers ...

Soldiers from 1 RAR (Royal Australian Regiment) jump into a simulated enemy trench position in Townsville, Australia. Credit: ian hitchcock/Getty Images Black Mirror is way ahead of us again. Virtual ...