News tagged with virtual simulations
CeBIT: Robot obeys commands and gestures
At the CeBIT in Hanover, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology will present innovations for our everyday life in the future. At the joint stand G33 in hall ...
Feb 24, 2012 |
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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
Sep 28, 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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Frog dissections go virtual at California school
(AP) -- A Southern California high school is taking the scalpel to frog dissections in biology class as it becomes the first U.S. school to take up animal welfare supporters' offer of free anatomy software.
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 perspective in the CAVE with 3-D computer-assisted virtual environment
Hollywood movie studios aren't the only ones embracing 3-D technology. Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies are using a new 3-D computer-assisted virtual environment ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Japan resort draws men with virtual girlfriends
Long a favourite of lovers and honeymooners, a Japanese beach town with fading sparkle has found a new tourism niche in the wired age by drawing young men and their virtual girlfriends.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 30, 2010 |
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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 ...
Feb 25, 2010 |
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Virtual testing gives lightweight planes lift-off
Monash University aeronautical engineers are working with the world's leading aerospace company to fast-track the design and construction of a new generation of super lightweight and efficient passenger airplanes.
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Study examines how much is too much visual information when it comes to learning
(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But with advances in computer graphics capabilities, more recent cognitive theory related to multimedia learning suggests that very ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Augmented reality to help astronauts make sense of space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Life aboard the International Space Station is hard work. Crewmembers have a multiplicity of complex tasks, potentially involving thousands of tools, components and other items. But ESA astronaut ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Super-sized tiny proteins
What are the causes of illness? How can the effect of medication be improved? Molecular biologists can now gain new insights by the virtual simulations generated with a new type of software.
Aug 21, 2009 |
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More to Second Life than just sex
Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network's Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC) have found that a wide array of health-related activity occurs in the 3 dimensional virtual world of ...
May 25, 2009 |
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Nimbus and cloud computing meet STAR production demands
(PhysOrg.com) -- The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 03, 2009 |
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New research may save lives in suicide bombings
Florida Institute of Technology researchers have determined that where a person is standing in a room or other location during a suicide terrorist attack can have a great bearing on survival and injuries.
Mar 23, 2009 |
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