Virtual reality has changed the world in more ways than one. The concept first emerged in science fiction, so how has it grown into scientific fact?

Scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays -- without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control ...

The Museum of Modern Art’s senior design curator is getting into VR. In collaboration with the production company Sibling Rivalry Studio, Paola Antonelli has created a new 360-video series ...

This means that refraction at the interface between a positive-index material and a negative-index material would tear the wave apart, leaving no single negatively refracted wave. Valanju reasoned ...

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A refraction test is usually given as part of a routine eye examination. It may also be called a vision test. This test tells your eye doctor exactly what prescription you need in your glasses or ...

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There has been a surprise discovery of ‘significant’ refraction of gamma rays which opens the door to nuclear photonics and the use of high energetic light beams to investigate the atomic nucleus.

The VR technology also teaches patients about binocular alignment. “We’re helping providers help their patients,” Amanda Nanasy, OD, who also spoke at the Neurolens event, said.