The AI pioneer’s new startup, World Labs, is betting that machines can learn to build infinite, on-demand virtual worlds.

World models represent the next frontier in AI, enabling machines to create immersive, interactive 3D environments with ...

We’re in a major technological revolution where artificial intelligence, gaming, and virtual reality are allowing us to create and enter totally new spaces and have new experiences there. In these ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to let people buy and sell virtual goods and services — with actual money — in the metaverse The tech billionaire on Monday said his company is testing new tools that ...

Virtual characters are real to Gen Z in China. Emotional connections are made, interactions are meaningful and there is very real personal investment in non-physical environments. Even birthdays are ...

As the trend of real-life creeping into virtual worlds continues, will some form of regulation be necessary sooner than later? And how valuable can online games be in modeling real-life human behavior ...

How one professor uses online games as petri dishes of human behavior Edward Castronova has been a wizard, a clergyman, and lately, a monster-slaying blonde, all inside virtual worlds. Scholars may ...

The metaverse—a virtual space where users can interact with each other and digital objects without regard to geographical and territorial boundaries—is challenging all norms and conventions when it ...

"Accessibility is critical," the singer-songwriter writer tells PEOPLE about why she is partnering with the virtual reality platform Innerworld, which offers peer-to-peer mental health support for ...

There are many ways to facilitate your students’ immersion in simulations. There are two types of simulations: augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). In a VR simulation, the learner is ...

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 ...