Today Oculus VR, the virtual-reality hardware company Facebook acquired for $2 billion in 2014, releases its flagship headset, the Oculus Rift. In so doing, it launches the era of commercial virtual ...

When it comes to emerging technologies, there’s a lot to keep newsrooms busy. Virtual reality has promise, and so do chatbots. Ditto, too, for connected cars and connected homes. In fact, the ...

“Hi, Julie,” called Rana Tuncer, a senior computer science major at the University of Delaware. No, Tuncer was not greeting a fellow peer — she was interacting with a computer-generated patient while ...