Virtual Reality

Ian Taylor is one of this country's great inventors and runs a world-leading graphics company, Animation Research Limited. Its offshoot Virtual Eye brings to life sports such as cricket, the America's… Video, Audio

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has produced a 360-degree virtual reality experience which teleports users up on stage. Each of five vantage points offers a different view as well as a different… Audio, Gallery

We go beyond gaming to explore how VR works, what it's being used for (from treating a fear of spiders, to training young doctors) and ask if it's yet making any compelling case to be in every home. Audio, Gallery

Using technology you necessarily wouldn’t associate with artistic or musical applications is what drives composer Clovis McEvoy. His creative thinking has seen Clovis awarded a Professional… Audio

London’s Philharmonia Orchestra has developed a new PlayStation app that allows users to experience what it's like to sit in the middle of the orchestra surrounded by talented players. Audio

Virtual reality technology is already touted as a safe, effective way to train pilots, parole officers, surgeons, soldiers and bus drivers. A pilot study at Waitemata DHB is now using VR to train… Audio

Virtual reality technology isn't just for millennials and gamers. Recently, a series of VR films targeted at a very mature audience premiered at a New York senior citizen's centre. Video, Audio

Professor Albert (Skip) Rizzo of the University of Southern California is the world authority on using virtual reality in psychology and medicine. Video, Audio

Some cool applications for VR technology in art and filmmaking; Google wants you to share your location data with you friends; and a new concert subscription service is dubbed "Netflix for live… Audio

A team of computer scientists at Victoria University think they may be a step closer to making virtual reality more like... reality. Audio

Australian artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth on exploring the power of storytelling in virtual reality. Foreign Policy magazine has named her as one of 2016's "100 Leading Global Thinkers." Her… Audio

Hadyn Green of consumer.org.nz's been testing the latest virtual reality headsets. So what are the options on the market today and how do they work? Audio

Could augmented reality save us from awkward interactions at cocktail parties? We talk to Prof. Mark Apperley from the University of about some interesting uses for virtual and augmented reality and… Audio

This Way Up reviews what's been hot (quite literally in one notable case) tech in 2016. VR has well and truly arrived and chatbots are on the horizon. Audio

The world's first virtual reality operation was streamed live from London recently to an audience in the tens of thousands in 140 countries.   Video, Audio

Powered in part by the massive crowdfunding success of the Oculus Rift there are now dozens of virtual and augmented reality products on the market. Kathryn Ryan talks to Matt Coleman, the chair of a… Audio