Virtual reality isn't confined to the entertainment world. There has also been an uptake of VR in more practical fields – it's been used to piece together parts of a car engine, or to allow people to "try on" the latest ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 5, 2018
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The idea seems wonderful—a phone app that allows you to take a photo of a plant or animal and receive immediate species identification and other information about it. A "Shazam for nature" so to speak.
Software
Dec 29, 2017
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No experience with human speech is necessary for budgerigars to perceive the difference between "d" and "t", according to a study published May 31, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mary Flaherty from The State ...
Plants & Animals
May 31, 2017
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Whether you prefer a cool summer night with a gentle breeze or a crystal clear and still winter day, the human perception of temperature, or thermal comfort, while largely dependent on the temperature itself, involves several ...
Environment
Apr 28, 2017
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EPFL researchers took advantage of the limits of human vision to hide an image in a video. The image is invisible to the human eye, but not to a camera.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 20, 2017
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Scatterplots are widely used in various disciplines and areas beyond sciences to visually communicate relationships between two data variables. Yet, very few users realize the effect the visual design of scatterplots can ...
Engineering
Apr 5, 2017
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Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have demonstrated that data can be stolen from an isolated "air-gapped" computer's hard drive reading the pulses of light on the LED ...
Security
Feb 22, 2017
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Ever wonder how animals see the world? New research suggests that animals, or mammals at least, see the world the same way humans do. In a study published in the Nov. 25th issue of Biology Letters, researchers from Japan ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2015
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Imagine computers being able to understand paintings or paint abstract images much like humans. Bo Li at Umeå University in Sweden demonstrates a breakthrough concept in the field of computer vision using curves and lines ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 23, 2015
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Augmented reality is the enhancement of human perception through overlaying technologies that can expand, annotate and even record the user's moment-to-moment experience.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 3, 2015
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