News tagged with immersive digital environment

Applying enhanced virtuality to language learning

Merging the real world with its mirror in a virtual world so that students can be immersed in a hybrid learning environment that permits improved language teaching: that is the objective of scientists at the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

3D, 360-degree fog display shown off (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Any fan of Star Trek knows about the joys of the holodeck. The idea of a 3D, 360-degree immersive digital environment, projected on demand, is an enticing one that has thus far been confined ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast weblog




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Architecture of experience

Krystal Tung ’13 wanted to follow the yellow brick road. When the Cabot House resident heard that this spring’s House musical would be “The Wizard of Oz,” she headed straight for the stage.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Players get more pleasure from motion-based video games, researchers find

The newest motion-based video games — which are more interactive than standard video game systems with gamepads — are more realistic, give a greater sense of "being there" and are more enjoyable, according to findings ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Spaniards' capacity for analyzing audiovisual messages is very low

The majority of the population does not have sufficient capacity to critically interpret and analyze the audiovisual images and messages coming from the communication media. This is one of the main conclusions ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Dome screen puts Canadian audiences in the action

The audience finds itself inside a giant uterus. Or it flies around cathedral ruins. Or it is transported to a dark, lonely forest.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Researchers turn Kinect game into a 3D scanner

University of California, San Diego students preparing for a future archaeological dig to Jordan will likely pack a Microsoft Kinect, but it won’t be used for post-dig, all-night gaming marathons. Instead, ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The New Cultural Form: Perfection versus Mortality in Games and Simulation at Rensselaer

Willy Nilly’s Surf Shack offers a cure for the idealized virtual world of Second Life. The online shop, a project of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Associate Professor of Arts Ben Chang and collaborators, endows o ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stanford's virtual reality lab focuses on conservation

If a tree falls in a virtual reality forest, will anyone hear an environmental message? They will, as long as they were the ones who cut down the make-believe redwood.

Technology / Other

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Student innovator uses sound waves, T-rays for safer detection of bombs

Benjamin Clough is dedicated to making the world a safer place for emergency first responders, police and military personnel, chemical plant employees, and many others. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The real avatar: Researchers use virtual reality and brain imaging to hunt for the science of the self

That feeling of being in, and owning, your own body is a fundamental human experience. But where does it originate and how does it come to be? Now, Professor Olaf Blanke, a neurologist with the Brain Mind ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Cherokee, Apple partner to put language on iPhones

(AP) -- Nine-year-old Lauren Hummingbird wants a cell phone for Christmas - and not just any old phone, but an iPhone. Such a request normally would be met with skepticism by her father, Cherokee Nation employee ...

Technology / Software

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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