Technology, Ethics Meet in Debate Over ‘Virtual’ Actors

We’ve all seen commercials where an old piece of footage — or maybe an actor who’s no longer alive — is in a more modern-day setting. The technology to allow filmmakers and others in the entertainment world to use actors who are not actually on set is improving...

Video Games Can Boost Your Health

“Researchers at University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies designed ‘Virtual Iraq’, a therapeutic and educational interactive game. The games are based on the hypothesis that most people, including old age stroke patients and...

How VR Can Improve OR Efficiency

MedCity News explores how traditional medtech companies are hoping to be a better partner to hospitals as the latter embark upon improving hospital efficiency. Some medtechs are even embracing cutting-edge technology and MedCity News presents examples of how these two...

Treating Mental Health with Virtual Reality

Mental health issues affect many of us in our daily lives. Whether it’s from stress or anxiety, depression, or some other form of mental health, it’s something that affects most people in one way or another. It’s estimated that as many as one in five people in the...