Virtual Reality News

Brace yourself to beam onto the University of West Florida's "holodeck." The virtual-reality classroom will be the centerpiece of the university's new School of Science and Engineering building, a 95,000-square-foot, $31 million, four-story building that will house some of the university's most state-of-the-art technology.

Yu Sheng, Theodore C. Yapo, Christopher Young, Barbara Cutler, "A Spatially Augmented Reality Sketching Interface for Architectural Daylighting Design," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , vol.

Environmental Tectonics Corporation's Simulation Division located in Orlando, FL, and creator of the Advanced Disaster Management Simulator , launched today a new ADMS-COMMAND Training Simulator designed for Offices of Emergency Management to train Incident Command Teams: ADMS-OEM. With this virtual reality simulator, OEM's can train anytime, ...

The other day, a commenter asked whether people "truly represent themselves for who they are, do they take on different personality characteristics while in their online persona, and how is their level of tolerance for disagreement affected?" One way to examine this question is to look how people provide based upon their choice of avatar - the ...

Joe and Melissa DeLashmutt experienced the first "virtual birth" when their son, Alex, was born three weeks ago at Floyd Valley Hospital, in Le Mars.

Virtual realty training system and process simulation from Invensys will support creation of a virtual plant to analyze process, train operators.

DMN Newswire--2009-11-20--Shotoku Broadcast Systems -- an international leader in the manufacture of advanced camera support products -- today announced a new installation at the principal facilities of TV Azteca in Mexico City.

This is similar to the Google Street View setup we covered a week ago but goes a few steps further.

Can't stop hearing about it in the news, but wondering what makes "augmented reality" - the concept of overlaying computerized information, digital pop-up windows and/or virtual reality displays over real-world scenes and imagery - so exciting? Allow us to paint a picture.

Researchers from the University of Warwick, UK examined the effects of an anti-bullying virtual learning intervention called FearNot! The study recruited 1,129 children aged between eight and nine from 27 primary schools across the UK and Germany.

Surround 3D TV is making its way to your living room. To get a sense of what it may look and sound like, look no further than the cutting edge of virtual reality taking shape at academic research centers outfitted with world class data visualization facilities.

The movie won't be out until December, but the toys have their own multimedia selling point: an "augmented reality" feature.

Michael Jackson had 3D scans made of his body in what may have been a bizarre plan to build a virtual reality double of himself, the Daily Star reports.

The group of University of Central Florida nursing students stood at a laboring mother's bedside, their eyes glued to laptop screens that monitored both her and her baby's heartbeats.

The government will carry on with plans to require communications service providers to store details of all communications flowing over their networks, despite serious concerns being raised over technological and civil liberties issues.

Scientists from the University of Reading develop a virtual 3D simulator which depicts war zones in a bid to aid the recovery of British soldiers receiving therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder.

A New York company named Virtusphere, Inc. has created a virtual reality experience they call the Virtusphere.

Earlier this year, the worlda TMs first a virtual divorcea TM thrust an intriguing debate into the limelight: what is the relationship between virtual worlds and the real environment we inhabit, and can we still distinguish the two? London Digital PR argue that social media marketing, SEO techniques and then a great online PR and marketing strategy ...

QuickTime supports video, animation, graphics, 3D and virtual reality . Apart from these terms, for most of us, using a QuickTime player to watch and control QuickTime movies could bring great pleasure.

Jogging on the spot has gone high tech thanks to an omni-directional treadmill that allows you to walk in any direction while staying centered on the treadmill.