News

Even Mice Play In Virtual Worlds, For Science

A psychological study using mice, in place of humans or other mammals, is nothing new. Every high school or college student who has ever taken a low-level psych course knows that for ages, scientists have been running mice through mazes, teaching them to press levers for rewards, and having them perform countless other tiny tasks to gain greater understanding into mammalian behaviour.


July 4, 2011
News

C’mon Let’s Not Wear Stupid Things On Our Heads

Remember in the early 1990s when people thought the future was virtual reality? And they made all those enormous things to wear on your head? And then people got sick with Nintendo Virtual Boys? Good times!


March 31, 2011
News

Ditching Reality For A Game Isn’t As Fun As It Sounds

In October 2004, a Bush aide – widely believed to be Karl Rove – informed the New York Times Magazine’s Ron Suskind that, as a journalist, he was part of the “reality-based community”. It wasn’t a compliment. The aide told Suskind, scornfully, that “when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality… we’ll act again, creating other new realities.”


January 7, 2011
In Real Life

Gaming Technology Helps India Prepare For Terrorist Attacks

This 3D model of Bangalore’s Garuda Mall would be right at home in a modern video game, but it’s much more than that. It’s part of a simulation aimed at helping emergency response teams deal with the all-too-real possibility of a terrorist attack.


November 22, 2010
In Real Life

Play Video Games In A Virtual Aircraft Sitting In Your Driveway

You don’t need to spend tens of thousands of dollars if you want to own your own flight simulator. You can just do what this guy did and build your own!


July 1, 2010
In Real Life

NASA’s VR Headset Looks Like That Thing You Made In 4th Grade

The ’90s may’ve given us Blink 182 and stonewashed denim, but I very much doubt NASA will be reviving 1993′s virtual reality system alongside those other comebacks, seen here modelled on a (presumably) taken-advantage-of intern.


June 18, 2009
In Real Life

The Sad Story Of Two Homeless Sims

Meet Alice and Kev, a father/daughter pair of homeless Sims, struggling to survive in a Sim city that wants nothing to do with them.


May 20, 2009
News

Steven Spielberg Predicts Console-Free Virtual Reality Gaming Future

Famed filmmaker Steven Spielberg has looked into his crystal ball and has seen what’s to come: Virtual reality gaming. It’s the 1980s all over again!


April 16, 2009

Virtual Reality: The Year Twenty-O-Nine In Video Game History

It is the year 2009. Killer robots rampage through the streets, aliens rain down destruction from the sky, and a two-millennium old prophecy which could determine the fate of the world is coming to fruition.


January 31, 2009
In Real Life

Video Games Are Working On The Railroad

What does a one-hundred and fifty-seven year old railroad company like Union Pacific turn to in order to reach out to new, modern-age employees? Why video games, of course.