“The virtual raises the question of the erasure of limits”
Elsa Godart is a philosopher, psychoanalyst and author, in particular, of the essay I selfie so I am, the metamorphoses of the self in the […]
Virtual reality to the aid of tourism and heritage
What if immersive technologies reinvented access to culture, heritage and tourism? In strong development, tourism increases the risks of deterioration of sites and monuments as […]
Digital technology abolishes the border between real and virtual
Equipped with large glasses, which look a little like those worn by welders, a few people are sitting around a table and handling objects invisible […]
Facebook announces “Horizon”, a social universe in virtual reality
Fifteen years after the Second Life surge, will Facebook manage to generate as much enthusiasm with its own virtual universe project? Facebook’s virtual reality (VR) […]
helmets keep a huge margin for progress
A prototype of Sony’s PlayStation VR at the E3 show in Los Angeles, in 2015. MARK RALSTON / AFP Engineers have been working since the […]
We tested… Horizon Workrooms, the new virtual reality application from Facebook
Journalists attended, virtually, a presentation of Horizon Workrooms, Facebook’s virtual reality app, on August 17th. FACEBOOK REALITY LABS I have always had a relatively distant […]
in the virtual worlds of Roblox, avatars help teenagers to assert themselves
The world teeming with Roblox avatars. ROBLOX At the college next to his house, Romeo, with messy brown hair and dimples on his cheeks, is […]
With the metaverse, a new step in the difficult fight against sexual assault on the Internet
ROCCO After a few minutes immersed in Echo VR, a virtual reality sports game, we hear our first insult. In the reception room, intended for […]
We tested the PlayStation VR 2, Sony’s new virtual reality headset
Seven years after the release of the PlayStation VR 1 (PS VR 1), it is clear that Sony has not managed to democratize virtual reality […]
the bittersweet last hours of Microsoft’s metaverse
“Closure” is not the term that immediately comes to the lips of our interlocutors when we mention the definitive shutdown of AltspaceVR, a virtual reality […]
