While virtual reality remains best known for its applications within entertainment, it’s now found a use in healthcare too. At the Zhejiang Provincial Rehabilitation Management Bureau, it’s being used to assist former drug users with their rehabilitation programmes.

Open plan offices were originally intended to increase collaboration and improve relationships in the workplace. Yet a recent survey has revealed that Australian workers in these settings are more unfriendly, uncollaborative and distracted than employees in traditional work spaces.

It might look like a regular office block from the outside, but One Carter Lane is more than just a place where people spend their nine-to-five. As the first building in Europe to gain WELL certification, the project was built from the ground up with the wellbeing of its future occupants in mind.

Expensive headsets and a lack of mainstream exposure mean that virtual reality is still very much a niche interest in most countries. But in China, VR cafés run by Shenzhen-based start-up Emax are turning this emerging technology into everyday entertainment with a social side.