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A man in a yellow sweater wearing a white Apple Vision Pro headset, standing in the middle of a room. In front of him are two augmented reality windows showing a web browser (showing a hotel booking home page) and an iCloud notes folder (the open page reading: "Proposed plan for Day 1").

XR as Spatial Media Across Disciplines

Tyler Blackman and Daniel Harley November 14, 2024
A virtual environment with a littered grass field, a water body, and mountains. An avatar wearing an iridescent parka is in the middle of the grass.

Notes on Helsinki’s Digital Fashion Week

Tyla Stevenson November 4, 2024
Decorative image: lines of numbers conveying a sense of futurism

Fiction references in extended reality news: the Matrix is a good thing?

Emma Kaylee Graves-Sandriman October 10, 2024
Person wearing VR headset and smiling.

Parasocial intergroup contact in virtual reality: The importance of presence in 360-degree videos for reducing prejudice

Nili Steinfeld September 5, 2024
A man and a woman in formal wear, standing on a stage in front of a crowd.

Can virtual reality innovate the future of Chinese humanities education?

Yu Shan August 7, 2024

Virtual reality as an empathy machine and its discontent

Sandra Ponzanesi July 26, 2024
Screenshot from the VR documentary, "Clouds Over Sidra." Four women standing in the foreground, against the backdrop of a refugee camp.

Virtual reality and refugee crises: Impact of “Clouds Over Sidra”

Porismita Borah, Danielle Ka Lai Lee, Di Mu, Anastasia Vishnevskaya, Bimbisar Irom, Ron Price, Onur Ramazan and Yoon Joo Lee July 8, 2024
A young Rohingya woman sitting in front of a backdrop of a refugee camp and the words 'I Am Rohingya'.

Exploring ‘proper distance’ in virtual reality for humanitarian practice

Bimbisar Irom June 16, 2024
A close up of a person holding a phone up to the camera. The background is a residential street and the phone is open to the street view of pokemon go

How Play Shaped Augmented Reality

Kyle Moore April 17, 2024
Image of the artist suspended in the air by a rope and harness system. In the background is a screen with numbers and graphs representing biometric data

The body as data: Immersive technology and biometric artistic performance

Lucy Sparrow, Caiti Galwey, Ben Loveridge, Solange Glasser, Margaret Osborne and Ryan Kelly March 14, 2024
image of a young girl in a school dress holding a VR headset that she is wearing on her face

Who wants to govern the metaverse?

Ben Egliston, Marcus Carter and Kate Euphemia Clark February 25, 2024
skulls, some with Apple Vision Pros on, a blue haze or flickering eyes on the outer display.

Dying in VR/AR/XR: Rehearsing to get it right

Tonya Meyrick, Stefan Greuter, Kiah Hawker and Luke Heemsbergen February 15, 2024
Man wearing Apple Vision Pro headset. You can see a digital version of his eyes through the headset, he has his tongue sticking out

Apple’s vision of ourselves

Luke Heemsbergen January 30, 2024
Book cover for Covering Extended Reality Technologies in the Media

The Power of Technology Companies in Shaping XR News Discourse

Emma Kaylee Graves January 15, 2024
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Dis/Unity: Why game engines are central to the metaverse

Maxwell Foxman December 18, 2023
Schematic drawing of Amazon's proposal for AR smartglasses for their warehouse workers. It shows a glasses view with shelves in the background. Writing at the top of the glasses points the worker in the direction of a particular bin to pick up a product for packing

Researching XR Futures

Ben Egliston November 13, 2023
Black and white image of a woman in a VR headset in the foreground, with a neurtral expression. In the background there is a man in a lab coat next to an early computer. He is looking at the woman in the foreground

Picturing Early Virtual Reality

Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston October 25, 2023
Still from Still from Shinjuku Calling by Yamagami Yukihiro (2014) showing a greyscale image of a crosswalk near Shinjuku station in Japan, with transparent images of commuters overlayed over the image

Pixel Theory

Luke Heemsbergen August 31, 2023
Four coffee stained filters where the stain looks like a person

The Ambivalence of Beauty (Filters) in AR: Gender Exploration & Selfie Culture

Kiah Hawker August 10, 2023
Extreme close up side on image of a person wearing Apple's Vision Pro headset. They are pressing a button on the top of the headset

“My VR does not acknowledge me as a person”: Is the metaverse leaving disabled users behind?

Ben Egliston, Kate Euphemia Clark and Marcus Carter August 6, 2023
Woman sitting wearing Apple's Vision Pro headset looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. The headset covers her eyes, but on the headset is a live video feed of where her eyes are looking

The identity, emotion and gaze behind Apple’s Vision Pro

Chris Chesher July 3, 2023
VR headset sitting on a pile of sand with a purple fog in the background

The Death of the Metaverse?

Leighton Evans June 7, 2023
A Midjourney generated image of an 'evolutionary tree of tech'. It is a pencil drawing of a large circular tree with different pieces of technology resting in the foliage

How Augmented Reality Comes to Be

Luke Heemsbergen and Andrew Iliadis April 24, 2023
A group of cartoon avatars working in a Horizons workspace

Getting our VR legs: Who is using VR?

Daniel Harley April 19, 2023
A cartoon boy sitting cross legged on the ground. He is taking off a VR headset. He has spirals for eyes symbolising that he has experienced motion sickness in VR

Learning from VR Motion Sickness

Paul Roquet March 12, 2023
An abstract image of bits of glass overlapping each other on a dark background

Defining (x) Realities

Tony Liao January 19, 2023
DallE generated image of an impressionist style drawing of someone watching a group of people in the metaverse. Several of the people are wearing VR headsets

Avoiding the (Virtual) Hype

Maxwell Foxman December 20, 2022
Olivia Rodrigo standing with her arms crossed and tongue out looking at the camera. She has stickers all over her face and tongue. She looks slightly annoyed

Facing the socialisation of augmented reality

Luke Heemsbergen December 1, 2022
A DallE generated image of ancient Roman mosaic featuring two people wearing a VR headset using cyberpunk colours

We should be regulating the metaverse now

Joanne Gray November 29, 2022
A close up image of a woman in a headset. The headset has glowing strips of light on it

Is the metaverse really the future of work?

Ben Egliston, Kate Euphemia Clark and Luke Heemsbergen November 4, 2022
A close-up black and white image of a woman looking at the camera. There is a filter overlay that makes it look as if she is glitching

Sexual assault in the metaverse isn’t a glitch that can be fixed

Kate Euphemia Clark and Trang Le November 4, 2022
A person holding a mobile phone. On the phone you can see they are playing Pokemon GO

The politics of space in Pokémon Go

Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston August 17, 2022

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