News tagged with virtual environment
Brainput system takes some brain strain off multi-taskers
(Phys.org) -- A research team made up of members from Indiana University, Tufts and MIT and led by Erin Treacy Solovey, a has built a brain monitoring system that offloads some of the computer related activities ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 16, 2012 |
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Fujitsu develops high-speed thin client technology for 10-fold improvement in responsiveness
Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced that it has developed technology for high-speed thin clients that will respond as much as ten times faster to user operations, even in low-quality network ...
May 15, 2012 |
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Improved waiting area design increases customer comfort, study finds
Many diners cringe at the thought of waiting for a table in a crowded restaurant, while restaurant managers hope they do not lose customers due to long waits. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has studied restaurant ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 09, 2012 |
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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
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Virtual reality supports planning by architects
Even the most exact construction plan lacks many details and design options. The building owner needs imagination to obtain an idea of the constructed building. Now, the 3D video glasses made by the KIT spin-off ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Avatars develop real world skills
New research suggests that far from disengaging young people from real life, virtual worlds can provide unique environments that can help them learn and negotiate new situations.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 07, 2011 |
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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
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Talk to the virtual hands
Body language of both speaker and listener affects success in virtual reality communication game.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 12, 2011 |
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NASA gives public new internet tool to explore the solar system
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 04, 2011 |
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Wii U demos show off secrets, 360-degree views
(AP) -- A look at the eight individual interactive experiences - not actual full-fledged games - that Nintendo used to demonstrate the new Wii U system's 6.2-inch touchscreen controller, which features the abi ...
Jun 10, 2011 |
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FRAVE: Flexible virtual reality system
Product developers, vehicle design engineers and trainee pilots increasingly utilize 3-D worlds, operating in a virtual space created by realistic images in real time. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 31, 2011 |
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Nvidia shows off Kal-El -- new quad-core processing chip
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia, well known for its graphics chips, has made a pretty big statement by releasing a video on Youtube showing the capabilities of its new quad-core processing chip for smartphones and ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Sandia researchers merge gaming, simulation tools to create models for border security
With funding from the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (CBP), researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a high-fidelity simulation and analysis program that ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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New 3-D research technology unveiled
The University of Idaho today unveiled the new home for an IQ Station, state-of-the-art technology that allows faculty, student and staff researchers to see images in 3-D.
Feb 23, 2011 |
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New software that configures access policy automatically developed by NEC
NEC Corporation announced today the development of technology that collectively distributes and configures access policy to a variety of computing resources in a cloud computing environment. The newly developed technology ...
Jan 12, 2011 |
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