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Augmented Reality Still in Its Infancy, Says Layar
Augmented reality pioneer Layar is celebrating its first anniversary in June, and has plans for making augmented reality more popular. Layar - Augmented reality - Virtual Reality - Android - Television
Virtual Reality Helps Wounded Soldiers Cope
Virtual reality is helping some wounded soldiers cope with treatment for severe burns.
Expedia exec cites virtual reality on mobile as key innovation in travel
One of the highlights of this years Travel Distribution Summit Europe 2010 , is its opening session, which will feature speakers from Priceline, Kuoni, Expedia and Accor.
NJIT Engineer Helps Stroke Patients Regain Motor Functions In Hands, Arms - More Volunteers Needed For Study
Helping stroke patients regain use of their hands and arms through innovative robotic and virtual reality-based video game therapies is the focal point of NJIT Associate Professor Sergei Adamovich, a biomedical engineer. Thanks to a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Adamovich is developing better ways to rehabilitate people who have lost control of their hands ...
Military-Grade Augmented Reality Could Redefine Modern Warfare
When explaining the concept of augmented reality to someone who has never heard of it, I find myself going through a series of common real-life and pop-culture examples to help them understand. Aside from explaining that the " 1st and Ten Line " in football games and the computer vision of the Terminator are indeed forms of augmented reality, I often use examples from the military - the fighter ...
Fabric of Reality: Beyond the realms of imagination
There are moments in The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch (Penguin, 1998) when Tim Radford felt perilously out of his depth. But the adventure was exhilarating From Friday 16 July, the club will be discussing Naturalist by EO Wilson (Island Press, 2006) All good books test the imagination. When you open them you must imagine for yourself Raymond Chandler's rainy Los Angeles in the 1930s, or ...
Communicating Construction Safety in a Simulation Environment in Israel Using EON Reality Solutions
EON Reality, the world's leading interactive 3D software provider, today announced the installation of an immersive Virtual Reality environment, the EON Icube, at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, as a part of a Virtual Construction project. The immersive laboratory will serve as a simulator for constructors to train for potential dangers and learn how take precautions in their day ...
Tribute to Norman McLaren takes audience to new level of virtual reality
Halfway through Norman: A Tribute to Norman McLaren a groundbreaking multi-media tribute to the Andy Warhol of Canadian animation the man himself, dead since 87, shows up in a slightly distorted holograph to grapple with a chair that refuses to be sat upon.
NJIT biomedical engineer awarded $1.3M grant to develop better ways to help stroke patients
Helping stroke patients regain use of their hands and arms through innovative robotic and virtual reality-based video game therapies is the focal point of NJIT Associate Professor Sergei Adamovich, a biomedical engineer. Thanks to a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Adamovich is developing better ways to rehabilitate people who have lost control of their hands, fingers ...
The Matrix For Businesses
An anonymous reader writes "The idea of using virtual reality and gaming technologies to create training exercises and business simulations has been around for years. But recent advances in computer graphics, interfaces, and massively multiplayer online (MMO) games have made it commercially viable to pursue simulations in the business world. Novel, a venture-backed startup company, is about to ...