NASA's Curiosity rover is currently putzing around on the surface of Mars, and we've seen plenty of pictures to know what the red planet looks like. However, a new simulator that NASA put together ...

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Kinect and Oculus Rift aren't just for games. The Human Interfaces division of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California has published a video showing off how Kinect and Oculus Rift could come ...

NASA is gunning to send astronauts to near-Earth asteroids and Mars, and now it finally has an approved way to get them there: the unimaginatively named Space Launch System, which passed a critical ...

While the Oculus Rift has been momentous for the gaming industry, its possibilities for revolutionizing other industries are endless as well. The Oculus Rift, perhaps the most advanced form of virtual ...

Floating around in space can't be all that fun, and after being up there for days, weeks, or months on end, you'd get pretty bored, right? Well, NASA is looking at solutions to this boredom, where it ...

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulusion Laboratory are experimenting with robots using the Xbox One Kinect sensor and Oculus Rift. The team has been using the gaming technology to control a robotic arm ...

NASA's jet propulsion lab has been experimenting with interesting ways to control robots. Case in point: marrying Oculus Rift with Kinect to control a robotic arm. By using the Oculus Rift for ...

“Mission: ISS” lets you use Oculus Touch controllers to interact with a virtual-reality version of the International Space Station. (Oculus Rift Illustration) Oculus has just launched “Mission: ISS,” ...

The Oculus Rift, perhaps the most advanced form of virtual reality available today, won the Best of CES award at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. The Oculus Rift's enhancements for video gaming ...