US Schoolchildren Take A Virtual Tour of Mars

We need to get more children into STEM subjects. We are advancing into an increasingly technologically focused future, and we are going to need an enthusiastic and dedicated new generation of scientists, technicians, engineers and mathematicians to take the baton and run with it. Unfortunately, there is a bit of a shortage of new recruits coming through the education system in the West, particularly young women, who face numerous institutional and cultural barriers to establishing themselves within these industries. In North America, there could be as many as 2.4 million unfilled STEM positions by 2018.

How Police Are Using 360° Photography and Virtual Reality in Crime Scenes

Technology has long played a significant role in law enforcement, from Internet monitoring of chat rooms online to CCTV and other surveillance equipment. And now, with the maturing of 360° photography and virtual reality, crime scene reconstruction is now more accurate than ever.

Bringing Accessibility To The Disabled With Virtual Reality Tours

Virtual reality tours have been hailed as a kind of Holy Grail for the disabled. For moments at a time, a disabled VR user can forget their disability and have experiences they may never have had the opportunity to do before. Virtual reality tours of faraway places, places that are difficult to travel to, can free the disabled user to experience these places as though they were actually there. However, virtual reality tours work at much closer range than this, and beyond entertainment, the experiences the technology offers can have very practical applications for disabled users.