Virtual reality

Concrete abstracts: Meet the Israeli woman using AI to reinvent the real estate industry

When Yael Gal decided to help her sister in Beersheva visualize her home, she hadn't realized how this would create a model that would leave the real estate industry floored.

Yael Gal: ‘You make a new collection for your budget – with the same atmosphere.’
Battlefield 6.

Battlefield 6: Back to the virtual battlefield

A patient at Clalit before a blood test.

Virtual world enters treatment rooms: VR glasses reduce anxiety among patients in Israel

 Apple Maps' car

Virtual touring – now in Israel too: Apple’s equivalent to Street View is available to all


Virtual reality tour of Auschwitz available to New Yorkers this month

The unique screening aims to utilize VR technology to allow museum-goers to experience a firsthand perspective of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

  Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Sightful's Spacetop G1: Transforming mobile computing

Israeli company launches the world's first spatial laptop, integrating virtual reality glasses and a 100-inch display, aiming to revolutionize the mobile work experience.


Google's $1M gift: Virtual Auschwitz tours now a reality

Wojciech Soczewica, director general of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, noted the project's responsibility to preserve the authenticity of the site while making educational content accessible.

 Virtual Auschwitz tour.

Online VR applications can be a privacy threat for kids and most parents are unaware of it

Parents largely unaware of security risks in children's VR app use. Study reveals concerns of physiological effects, privacy, but limited use of parental controls.

Girl wearing phone VR goggles. Uploaded on 8/5/2024

AI platform Villa offers new education options to students

Villa, an AI platform, offers a free 6-month membership to groups of more than 100 students who have been affected by the war to explore new education options and modes of learning.

 Villa's avatar

After Apple's success: Meta working on augmented reality glasses - report

According to the release, the company, which has been working on the AR glasses for years, is expected to present a prototype during 2024.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testing out the 'Orion' AR glasses prototype.

This Friday: Apple's Augmented Reality Glasses Land in Stores

Long lines are expected to form on the upcoming Friday at Apple stores in the US with the launch of Apple's augmented reality glasses. Despite the high price, early orders have already sold out.


Ben-Gurion University builds Silicon Valley-style campus on Minecraft

Players are tasked with developing a business plan before ultimately presenting their company to a Shark Tank-style panel of investors – all of which takes place inside Minecraft's virtual ecosystem.

 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Minecraft campus (main view).

Israeli VR firms aim to fill in gaps in US healthcare challenges

Israeli start-ups are developing virtual reality simulations that aim to ease the burden in struggling sectors of the US healthcare system, such as nursing and preventive care.

 A developer tests changes she made to the VR simulation in the InceptionXR office in Tel Aviv, July 12, 2023.

Dragons take over Expo Tel Aviv

The oversized animatronic dragons weren’t the only mythical creatures at the expo, as a phoenix, Pegasus, and even a talking tree delighted the visitors.

 AN ANIMATRONIC dragon seen at ‘Kingdom of Dragons’, at Expo Tel Aviv.