Issue 08 | May 2026
Forging New Frontiers
Architecture
Close, but not quite real
Virtual reality can replicate how we see and hear environments, but when it comes to psychological and physiological restoration, the body tells a different story.
C
icadas hum, punctuating an otherwise serene evening. Greenery fills your peripheral vision. You’re cosied up in a garden on a university campus, and your shoulders are beginning to drop. Except the garden isn’t real — it’s a 360-degree projection wrapped around the inside of a six-metre virtual-reality (VR) cylinder, and there are 32 electrodes tapping on your brainwaves.
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