Digital Government
New Virtual Reality Technology Lets You See Inside Your Eye
In stunning 3-D images.
Artificial Intelligence
Want to Chat with Shakespeare? AI Bots Will Soon Allow Us to Talk to the Dead
New chatbot programs are being developed to keep our knowledge active after our physical being passes away.
Digital Government
Video: These High-Tech Glasses Help the Legally Blind See
And they connect to the internet
Emerging Tech
It’s Ridiculous to Use Virtual Reality to Empathize With Refugees
The technology isn’t the moral game-changer some make it out to be.
Digital Government
Virtual Reality Can Make the Pain of Surgery Easier to Bear
By distracting patients, VR could minimize the cost and risk of operations—and allow doctors to operate on patients outside the hospital.
Modernization
To Hide Dismal Reality of Flying, Airlines Try Virtual Reality on Passengers
Better entertainment options could distract cramped passengers from the pains of traveling economy.
Emerging Tech
Why Virtual Reality May Become Part of Your Job
From mock customer-service scenarios to simulations of technical procedures, VR is branching out in the workplace.
Emerging Tech
Virtual Reality Is Disorienting People Into Questioning Reality
After exploring a virtual world, some users can’t shake the unsettling sense that the actual world isn’t real, either.
Artificial Intelligence
How Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Save Lives
Think these technologies are too futuristic for the government? Not anymore.
Artificial Intelligence
Ebook: 2017 Federal IT Trends Forecast
Hint: Expect cyber, data and emerging technologies such as virtual reality to remain in the spotlight, while areas like customer service will see less momentum.
Emerging Tech
Video: Inside the Technology of an Amazon Warehouse
This 360-degree video shows off the company's robotic systems.
Digital Government
Microsoft’s HoloLens Headset Will Allow Real Tank Operators to See the Battlefield Outside
The 360-degree view extends over 300 meters.
Artificial Intelligence
Tech That Will Change the Customer Experience Game
Forrester Research expects augmented and virtual reality will be customer experience game-changers.
Artificial Intelligence
How Government Gets Ready for Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality
Two new digital communities will coalesce around new burgeoning technologies in an effort to promote interagency collaboration, partnerships with industry and to exchange ideas about what works.
Emerging Tech
Education Dept. Seeks Virtual Reality, Video Game Devs for Next-Gen Tech
The department is hosting a $680,000 challenge for virtual and augmented reality ideas.
Emerging Tech
What If Virtual Reality Can Make Us Better Citizens?
Researchers are studying how the technology can help us build empathy and change our personal behavior.
Modernization
Video: What Chatting in Virtual Reality Looks Like
Oculus could change the way we do conference calls.
Emerging Tech
Virtual Classrooms Can Be as Unequal as Real Ones
Online courses are praised for their potential to make education accessible to everyone—but they’re leaving students behind.
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