Visitors to interactive virtual worlds want the ability to significantly affect the outcome of a story, but authoring these digital experiences is extremely complex. A new platform developed by Disney Research will help fulfill ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 27, 2015
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The promise of virtual reality in the living room is coming closer to, well, reality.
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 20, 2014
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Researchers at the Institute of Biotechnology at the Helsinki University and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have developed the first three-dimensional simulation of the evolution of morphology by integrating ...
Evolution
May 2, 2013
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In November, during the SharePoint Conference 2012, attendees received a Public Preview of project codename "GeoFlow" for Excel, the latest business-intelligence (BI) functionality to be integrated with Microsoft Excel 2013 ...
Software
Apr 12, 2013
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"Lone wolf" terrorists—individuals with no apparent ties to known extremist networks or conspiracies—have inflicted casualties in recent years and have drawn increasing attention from the law enforcement community. According ...
Social Sciences
Feb 5, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Year of the smartphone? So yesterday. Year of the smart room? So promising. In scientific circles, conversations are moving down from smart doors, fridges, stoves, and toilets, as computer scientists visit and ...
(AP)—Pope Benedict XVI put church leaders on notice Thursday, saying social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter aren't a virtual world they can ignore, but rather a very real world they must engage if they want to ...
Internet
Jan 24, 2013
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In the virtual world of Second Life, female avatars expose substantially more skin than males, independent of their virtual body proportions, according to research published December 26 in the open access journal PLOS ONE ...
Social Sciences
Dec 26, 2012
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More than 900 million people worldwide are active users of the social networking site Facebook, and it is estimated that as many as one-third report using Facebook to check on the activities of former romantic partners. The ...
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2012
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A robotic cook, a colouring book that comes to virtual life and movies that read your mind are some of the innovations on show at a cutting-edge computer technology exhibition in Hong Kong this week.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 14, 2011
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