Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. When OpenAI’s Sam Altman ...

Turning a boring 2D photo into a more dynamic, 3D-like viewing experience might sound impossible. But you can do it right from your phone running iOS 26, thanks to Apple's new Spatial Scenes. Apple's ...

Update: A previous version of this post incorrectly stated that the feature works with any iOS 26-compatible iPhone. It has been updated to clarify that the feature is only supported on iPhone 12 and ...

For thirty years, the social GIS literature has warned that powerful mapping technologies can become normalized in society through naïve empiricism. Technologies come to seem value-free and even to ...

When Tim Cook used Apple's Vision Pro headset for the first time, he described it as an "aha moment"—a feeling I also experienced when I first used the device. If we are lucky, we get a few of those ...

Sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one ...

I use the library to carry out viewshed analyses from an observer in a tall building, to see if they can see the facade of buildings around a city. However, running the viewshed function using DOM ...

In our new weekly series, we’re covering the vast amount of investment, ingenuity and scientific expertise going toward stopping climate change. By David Gelles As we report on climate change, it’s ...

If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 16, you can shoot spatial photos and video for viewing in the Photos app on Apple's Vision Pro headset. Keep reading to learn how it's done. Apple's Vision Pro ...

Today’s release of iOS 18.1 beta 4 makes the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max camera even better, with support for capturing spatial photos. Apple announced spatial photo capture for the iPhone 16 ...

The United States is experiencing a serious housing crisis, and has been for a long time. Growth in rents continues to exceed overall price inflation. Mortgage rates have been at a multi-decade high ...