News tagged with interactive virtual reality

Iowa State's METaL lab develops multiple ways to experience virtual reality

Iowa State University doctoral students Leif Berg and Ryan Pavlik handed over a Wii Remote and a pair of 3-D glasses.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Increased success a 'virtual' certainty for rugby players (w/ Video)

Rugby players worldwide could benefit from a new virtual reality training programme created at Queen's University Belfast. Team members from Ulster Rugby have been working with researchers in the School of Psychology at Queen's ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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University research team creates augmented reality sandbox (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Most children at some point in their schooling are taught about the water table and many wind up being tasked with creating a model of some sort to represent how it all works. Some use clay, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

DARPA sets sights on high-tech contact lenses

(Phys.org) -- A Bellevue, Washington, company specializing in display technology based on eyewear and contact lenses has sealed a deal with DARPA. Innovega, which says its technology can open a “new dimension ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 15, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

'Heavy Rain' game creator debuts high-tech 'Kara'

(AP) -- The future of performance-capture technology is right around the corner, and its name just might be "Kara."

Technology / Software

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | 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

Games for nature

Can digital games and virtual worlds help us save nature? Conservation scientists Bruno Monteferri, Chris Sandbrook and Bill Adams explore whether computer gaming is a new frontier for conservation.

Technology / Software

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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

Computer scientist developing intersections of the future with fully autonomous vehicles

Intersections of the future will not need stop lights or stop signs, but will look like a somewhat chaotic flow of driverless, autonomous cars slipping past one another as they are managed by a virtual traffic controller, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Transparent iron? For the first time, an experiment shows that atomic nuclei can become transparent

At the high-brilliance synchrotron light source PETRA III, a team of DESY scientists headed by Dr. Ralf Röhlsberger has succeeded in making atomic nuclei transparent with the help of X-ray light. At the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Darpa researchers design eye-enhancing virtual reality contact lenses

Currently being developed by DARPA researchers at Washington-based Innovega iOptiks are contact lenses that enhance normal vision by allowing a wearer to view virtual and augmented reality images without the ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

New U of M video game teaches consequences of distracted driving

Being in a life-threatening vehicle crash due to distracted driving teaches a painful lesson, but makers of the new video game Distraction Dodger hope there is a much safer way to teach the same lesson.

Technology / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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