As the trend of real-life creeping into virtual worlds continues, will some form of regulation be necessary sooner than later? And how valuable can online games be in modeling real-life human behavior ...

Virtual worlds have been rolling about the collective imagination for years. But where did they come from, and, more importantly, where are they going? Some of the first virtual worlds are early IRC ...

Danny Guan is a writer with an avid interest in anime, manga, video games, and more. When he isn't writing for Game Rant, he's writing on his own personal website. Virtual reality is a common theme in ...

The fifth annual Virtual Beings Summit: Simulations is taking place on June 7 in San Francisco, and the event will center on the big trend around AI simulations, where smart AI characters populate ...

Virtual reality uses technology to “transport” you to a digital space where you can move through and interact with a simulated environment. It’s just one type of extended reality, an umbrella term ...

“Belle,” a dazzling new anime from the Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda, drops us into a surreal cyberscape known as “U,” where internet users hide behind outlandish avatars, enormous humpback whales ...

For the past few decades it’s been de rigueur for science fiction stories to be set in virtual worlds, from the early neon-lined stylings of Tron to the hedonistic pop cultural temple of Ready Player ...

We live in a world where it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell where reality ends and virtual life begins. Whether you’re donning a VR headset to explore new identities or endlessly scrolling ...

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Throughout months of metaverse hype, with ...