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The city of Yokohama (Courtesy)
March 19, 2026, 9:17 am
Yokohama transforms into a tech innovation hub of East Asia
The city aims to attract foreign talent in technology and research to become a powerhouse beyond Japan’s shores
By Todd Fong
The digital film set of Auschwitz-Birkenau, called 'Picture from Auschwitz,' was created by ATM Virtual Studio and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum in 2025. (Courtesy)
November 22, 2025, 8:29 am
Auschwitz launches a virtual film set of its grounds, and sparks an ethical debate
‘Picture from Auschwitz,’ a brick-by-brick digital reproduction of the Nazi camp created by the memorial, earns praise despite fears of AI-fueled distortion of Holocaust content
By Matt Lebovic
Footage of Evyatar David being kidnapped to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, as shown at the new October 7 Visitor Center in Sderot, southern Israel, September 29, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
October 7, 2025, 7:34 am
New October 7 center in south harnesses virtual reality for an immersive experience
In rented municipal space in Sderot near lookout over Gaza, NGO ISRAEL-is encourages visitors to ‘feel’ what happened, be part of the evolving story of Israeli resilience
By Sue Surkes
Miri Berger, left, and Aryeh Katz, right, co-founders of 6Degrees, donate their MyMove, virtual reality game, to Tamir, a soldier recently wounded in fighting in the Gaza Strip at Sheba Medical Center on August 28, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
September 26, 2024, 8:29 am
Israeli virtual reality game helps dozens of new war amputees reduce phantom pain
Start-up 6Degrees says their immersive approach cuts phantom pain faster than current treatments; amputees do physical therapy on their own in an over-stressed healthcare system
By Diana Bletter
Medical students at Baruch Padeh (Poriya) Medical Center in Tiberias try OtheReality VR sets. (Courtesy)
May 28, 2024, 8:09 am
Virtual reality app lets medical staff get a patient’s-eye view
Israeli start-up OtheReality allows doctors to revisit difficult scenarios and recharge their empathy tanks to reduce patient discomfort and dissatisfaction
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A screenshot from a virtual reality scene called 'Shlomi's Glasses,' created by the family of hostage Shlomi Ziv to portray the experience of hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
February 15, 2024, 9:44 am
Hoping to jar world leaders, hostage’s cousin rebuilds captivity in virtual reality
‘Shlomi’s Glasses,’ a six-minute experience created by family of Supernova security guard Shlomi Ziv, is meant to add emotional heft to campaign for hostages’ release
By Jessica Steinberg
Occupational Therapist Chen Ben Dan demonstrates the XRHealth therapeutic virtual reality system, Sheba Medical Center, December 28, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)
January 16, 2024, 7:29 pm
Portable virtual reality system helps brain-injured patients with recovery
At Sheba Medical Center, occupational therapists find that war-wounded soldiers like XRHealth’s game-like headsets and specialized software
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A man wearing VR goggles is seen next to a screen depicting Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher at the Meta hub in Berlin on June 6, 2023. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
June 7, 2023, 7:00 pm
In first, artificial intelligence used for Holocaust education
Visitors in Berlin can converse with an AI-generated avatar based on interviews held with a survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
By Deborah Cole
This July 22, 2019, photo taken from video gives a 360-degree view of Ramadan prayers on the plateau of the Dome of the Rock, which can be seen in The Holy City, a virtual reality experience in the metaverse. (The Holy City VR via AP)
August 8, 2022, 3:06 am
From the Western Wall to Mecca: VR lets virtual pilgrims explore world’s holy sites
Users can tuck a prayer note into a crack of the Western Wall, join thousands of worshipers during Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque or circle around the Kaaba
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO
Illustrative: A visitor interacts with a display through a virtual reality goggles at the Saatchi Gallery in London, on Sunday, December 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)
November 18, 2021, 7:03 pm
Israeli startups prepare to play major role in building metaverse
‘Creative reality’ startup D-ID, and VR/AR company Glimpse Group partner to bring ‘life’ into a futuristic virtual world
By Ricky Ben-David
Illustrative graphic of the Spike application running on the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset (Spike/Courtesy)
October 29, 2021, 2:42 pm
Israeli startup Spike partners with newly rebranded Meta, launches VR email app
The Herzliya-based company says it is the first Israeli developer to have software available for the Oculus Quest 2 headset; Facebook renaming aimed at focus on ‘metaverse’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
The main gallery in Jerusalem's Musrara museum, now using digital reality to display a new exhibit during the 2020 coronavirus (Courtesy Musrara)
September 26, 2020, 7:11 pm
A Jerusalem museum ventures into VR and 3D imaging to open new exhibit
Musrara brings to life portraits and videos of an exchange program with Native Americans in new digital format
By Jessica Steinberg
Amanda Friedeman takes a question from a student directed to Holocaust survivor Adina Sella, as she is displayed as a three-dimensional hologram at the Take A Stand Center in the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center on October 26, 2017, in Skokie, Illinois. (Joshua Lott/AFP)
January 10, 2020, 5:20 pm
The ‘virtual’ future of Holocaust education is already here
From recreating the Nuremberg Trials to a virtual reality ‘walk-through’ of Auschwitz-Birkenau, new gaming technology is replacing face-to-face encounters with Holocaust survivors
By Matt Lebovic
Jacob Maslow
November 28, 2019, 12:29 pm
Jacob Maslow
The future of Augmented and Virtual Reality
Advanced technologies show off the future uses of augmented reality to Israelis who were slower to adopt video games than other countries
Salem Barameh, executive director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, uses a headset for the 'Palestine VR' tour guide application, on October 10, 2019, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
October 30, 2019, 6:46 pm
Banned by Israel from visiting? There’s an app for that
Palestine VR includes narrated tours of sites in East Jerusalem, West Bank that US congresswomen Tlaib and Omar planned to visit before entry ban over Israel boycott support
By AFP and ToI Staff
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