VR technology has matured and is experiencing a second spring, with affordable consumer-grade headsets revolutionizing gaming and entertainment, and its potential applications in nongaming industries.

Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a convergence of user interface design, flight and visual simulation, and telepresence technologies, focusing on the user's experience while suspending disbelief about the method of creating it.

Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) technology creates a fully immersive, computer-created sensory experience that can be used for entertainment, education, and training.

Virtual reality: An overview

Contemporary photorealistic virtual reality setups can effectively mimic reality, allowing for the investigation of real-world cognitive and emotional processes under controlled laboratory conditions.

The reality of virtual reality

Virtual reality is rapidly expanding in educational simulations for special educators, benefiting personnel preparation and service delivery for children and adults with disabilities.

Virtual Reality: Emerging Applications and Future Directions

Virtual reality (VR) is poised for a future in scientific research, enhancing data treatment, numerical simulations, and combining human cognition and automated algorithms for better understanding of complex data.

Virtual Reality: Beyond Visualization.

Virtual reality (VR) enhances manufacturing process simulation by providing a more intuitive link between computer and human participants, improving overall impact and enhancing user immersion.

Virtual reality applications in manufacturing process simulation

Virtual Reality (VR) creates a multisensory immersive experience by using synesthetic modes rather than direct sensory stimuli, enhancing the viewer's interior position within new space.

Virtual Reality’s New Synesthetic Possibilities

Virtual reality training programs produce better outcomes than tested alternatives, with task-technology fit and research design aspects influencing results.

A meta-analysis of virtual reality training programs

Virtual reality therapy shows promise for mental health treatment, but more high-quality research is needed to confirm its effectiveness over traditional approaches.

Virtual reality in mental health

Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to revolutionize the assessment, understanding, and treatment of mental health disorders, but user experience and targeted interventions are crucial for success.

Virtual reality in the assessment, understanding, and treatment of mental health disorders

Virtual reality (VR) effectively enhances education by enabling users to interact and experience a virtual environment, enhancing learning outcomes and enhancing overall experience.

Virtual Reality Applications in Education

Virtual reality has matured and is now a mature, stable, and usable tool for decision-making and innovation in product design and manufacturing across various industries.

Industry use of virtual reality in product design and manufacturing: a survey

Virtual reality visualizations primarily use game engines, but standard guidelines are needed for effective transition from 2D to immersive visualizations.

Visualization in virtual reality: a systematic review

Virtual reality (VR) environments offer unique advantages in neuroscientific research and therapy, allowing for interactive, multimodal sensory stimuli and high control over therapeutic experiences.

Virtual reality in neuroscience research and therapy

Virtual reality (VR) shows promise in treating anxiety disorders, pain management, and eating disorders, with potential for use in psychosis, addictions, and autism.

Virtual Reality in Clinical Psychology

Virtual reality (VR) shows potential in improving consumer psychology and behavior during shopping, and this review highlights 16 research avenues for further exploration.

Shopping in virtual reality : A literature review and future agenda

VR Kids experiences provide children, teens, and young adults with physical disabilities a fun, positive, and relaxing experience, reducing stress and anxiety.

Understanding Virtual Reality

The proposed model better explains the influence of absorptive experiences on immersive virtual reality experiences in museums, leading to increased intention to visit.

Experiencing immersive virtual reality in museums

Virtual reality (VR) has potential applications in tourism planning, management, entertainment, education, accessibility, and heritage preservation, but acceptance of virtual experiences depends on tourists' attitudes and constraints.

Virtual reality: Applications and implications for tourism

These studies suggest that virtual reality (VR) technology is revolutionizing gaming, entertainment, education, training, scientific research, manufacturing, and mental health treatment by providing immersive, photorealistic, and intuitive experiences.