For decades, video games have been viewed as a sedentary pursuit, completely at odds with superior physical fitness and well-being. But the idea of leveraging virtual reality and video games to ...

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Boosting exercise is often on the agenda in the new year, but if you’re struggling to stick to a new fitness regime, University of South Australia research shows that virtual reality (VR) will not ...

A new study published in Psychology of Popular Media indicates that exercising in virtual reality alongside prerecorded avatars can foster a genuine sense of social presence, increase feelings of ...

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“These preliminary findings are quite promising given the high rates of sedentary behavior and associated health risks exhibited by children and youth with physical disabilities,” said James Rimmer, ...

"I've stopped thinking about myself in a negative way, " says guest coach Chesney Mariani, who has used the virtual reality exercise app every day for a year For 365 days, Chesney Mariani has ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigated the impact of virtual reality (VR) exercise on brain functioning, particularly its effect on working memory, a ...

KTVU crime reporter Henry Lee got a chance to experience a virtual-reality gym in San Francisco the other day. "I don’t know what’s real anymore!" he said, waving his hands while appearing ...

Those were only a handful of phrases I heard from my Syracuse sport management students the night of Feb. 27 while meeting at the school’s Bird Library to watch the Knicks-Celtics game via Xtadium’s ...

To teach empathy, a virtual-reality exercise has participants simulate being homeless and riding a bus. Courtesy of Virtual Human Intera Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University I’m sitting ...