Virtual-reality tech is fast becoming more real

Touch sensations are improving to help sectors like healthcare and manufacturing, while other advances are being driven by the gaming industry. By Helen Massy-Beresford Imagine a single technology that could help a robot perform safety checks at a nuclear plant, cure a person’s arachnophobia and simulate the feeling of a…

Teachers cultivate empathy using VR technology

Over 100 teachers cultivated skills such as empathy using virtual reality technologies during trainings across the island as part of a European Erasmus+ project. In the context of the European project VRTEACHER - Virtual Reality-based Training to improvE digital Competences of teachers, in which the Cyprus University of Technology is…