How Virtual Reality Can Improve Our Quality of Life
The reason that a neuroscientist like me gets so excited about virtual reality is its huge potential for helping people improve their quality of life.
Top 50 VR Games on Vive
I’ve put together a Top 50 Vive VR games of all time. You can get most of them on Oculus too…
Neural Speech – Neural Nets Will Soon Be Able To Do All The Talking For You
Once in a blue moon a neuroscience story will totally blow me away. A team of scientists just did it again by generating intelligible speech from a person’s brainwaves…
Poverty of Empathy and Smartphone Overuse
People who overuse their smartphones may gradually find themselves behaving in an increasingly anti-social manner compared to those who use them in moderation. It could even trigger a slide back into the incivility of previous ages.
Tech Companies that Bolster (or Harm) Feelings of Social Connectedness
We should start to label tech companies according to their overall impact on the depth of people’s sense of being socially embedded in a supportive community
Online Gaming Bilingual Boost
When MMORPG gamers sit in front of their computers – each in a different country, wearing headphones / mics so they can coordinate their battles with dragons, dwarves and elves – they may end up improving their command of a non-native language.
Virtual Reality Arcade coming soon…
In June 2013 I asked a professor of virtual reality environments whether VR might lead to a comeback for the arcade. 4 years later Other Worlds arrives in London…
Adverts Encouraging Use of Tech to Subdue Kids Could End In Tears
Advertisers are encouraging parents to use technology to mesmerize their kids into silence in a way that may well end up hindering their neurodevelopment.
New Hope for Paralysis Recovery by Dr Jack Lewis
Over 2014 we’ve seen some huge leaps in scientific advancement that are enabling previously wheelchair-bound people to stand up and take some small but important steps forward under their own volition.
Game Over for Reality? by Dr Jack Lewis
Immersive virtual reality gaming is good, frighteningly good. So good that it makes me worry that people will increasingly choose the excitement of virtual worlds over the relative mundanity of the real one.