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Thanks to the pandemic, many folks have found themselves working remotely from home. absurd:joy is developing a virtual office platform that's "built around privacy, comfort and creativity," and is now inviting remote teams to join the beta program.

Nothing breaks the immersion of VR like putting your hand through a wall. Haptics can give som sense of touch, but a new study has a clever alternative – robots that move physical furniture around, so there’s a real chair or wall waiting for you.

The Roland Museum is home to many of the company's music gear highlights. But it isn't open to the public, so wandering through the banks of music creation marvels is not an easy thing to do. Until now. You can now take a guided 360° tour in your browser or walk through in Google Street View.

Hyundai has continued the evolution of the owner's manual with the Hyundai Virtual Guide. The augmented reality (AR) app will initially be compatible with the 2015 Sonata, with additional models to follow.

ESA has created a street view-like virtual tour of the ISS. The update to the previously released panoramic view of the Columbus module provides a virtual look around every non-Russian section of the space station in exquisite detail.

If you don't like cycling alone on a trainer all winter, VeloReality’s VRide Multi may be more to your liking. It lets indoors cyclists "virtually" ride on world-famous routes with other riders, via actual HD first-person video shot on various scenic roads around the world.

In the 21st century, undersea factories are becoming a reality, but only as unmanned robotic platforms that are rarely visited. To show how these will be built and operated, GE has created a 3D virtual exhibit for its new research center in Rio de Janeiro.

Land Rover is putting its new Discovery Sport in the showrooms all 117 of its retailers in the UK … sort of. Instead of actual cars, the company is offering virtual 3D versions of the Sport that customers can take a tour of using Augmented Reality (AR) technology.

WikiGalaxy is engineering student Owen Cornec’s reimagining of how we view and consume information – specifically Wikipedia pages. The project takes each individual entry on the online encyclopedia and plots it as a star in a virtual galaxy, that you can navigate from the comfort of your sofa.

With the aim of improving clinicians' interpreting of ultrasound elstography images for breast cancer diagnosis, researchers at Michigan Technological University (MTU) have created a fake breast – that's silicon fake, not silicone fake.

Zwift is a massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) platform that lets real-world cyclists on stationary bikes ride with or race against one another in 3D computer-generated online environments. Just think of it as World of Warcraft for riders.

Looking to add a touch of Gran Turismo or Forza to your daily commute? Jaguar Land Rover is developing a Virtual Windscreen concept that aims to do just that with a slew of driver assistance technologies designed to keep your eyes on the road.