News tagged with virtual reality system

Microsoft engineer envisions computers that adapt to us

For decades, we controlled computers with a mouse and keyboard. The plastic mouse became a prosthetic for our hand, and the keyboard an extension of our fingers.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Virtual training for real combat

I zipped up the flak jacket, put on an Army helmet and snapped a pair of goggles over my eyes.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pioneer to sell augmented reality navigation system for cars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual reality may take us to worlds that worlds that we have never been to before, but augmented reality can make the world that we already live in a better, or at least a more digital, ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast weblog

Pico projector used in eye based video gaming system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Students at the University of Texas in Austen are playing video games. Honestly, that is really not news. Students all over the country are playing video games, usually when they should be studying. In this ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast weblog

A virtual reality scent system that fools human taste

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can you fool the human sense of taste in the world of virtual reality? Up until recently that question was impossible to answer, most because it had not been tested. Most of virtual reality ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Introducing RoSS, a 'flight simulator' for robotic surgery

A collaboration between the Center for Robotic Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has produced one of the world's first simulators ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'TomTom' for human body: TLEMsafe to assist surgeons with reconstructive surgery

Dutch researchers from the University of Twente's MIRA research institute, UMC St Radboud and various other institutions have developed a highly detailed computer model of the musculoskeletal system of the ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Immersive Game System Allows Physical Interaction Between Players

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a new immersive multiplayer game system, researchers are further blurring the line between gaming and the real world. Using a mouse and keyboard sounds kind of quaint compared to the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 9 feature

Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Machinists, NC programmers or mechatronics engineers -- trainees in engineering jobs often have to master complex equipment. In the future, trainees will practice and learn milling, turning, drilling and programming ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pushing the brain to find new pathways

Until recently, scientists believed that, following a stroke, a patient had about six months to regain any lost function. After that, patients would be forced to compensate for the lost function by focusing on their remaining ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Really virtual reality

(PhysOrg.com) -- Far from being geeky and exotic, virtual reality could be the key to a new range of innovative products. European researchers and industrialists have come together to build a world-leading ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Saving time -- and money -- with semantic design

Whether designing the sleek body of a new Ferrari or laying out a mould for its brake casings, engineers spend an inordinate amount of time searching through design data. A new semantic engineering environment developed by ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Catering to car buyers' desires

(PhysOrg.com) -- Buying a new car is one of the biggest purchases most people make. But how can you be sure that the car you order will live up to your expectations? European and Asian researchers are using ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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