Can virtual reality play a role in veterinary education? Researchers think so
You're a fourth-year veterinary student, and it's Day 2 of your emergency clinic rotation.
Veterinary medicine
Dec 6, 2022
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News tagged with virtual reality game
Custom touch screen application used to study navigation in chimps
A small international team of researchers has found that it is possible to test navigation skills in chimpanzees using virtual reality technology. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the researchers ...
Absence of fans at European elite soccer 'ghost games' significantly decreases home advantage: study
When some European elite football leagues returned to action last year amidst the pandemic, athletes played largely without crowds. These so-called ghost games offered researchers a rare opportunity to get into the heads ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2021
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Video game experience, gender may improve VR learning
Students who used immersive virtual reality (VR) did not learn significantly better than those who used two more traditional forms of learning, but they vastly preferred the VR to computer-simulated and hands-on methods, ...
Education
Mar 25, 2020
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Orlando company turns learning the elements into virtual reality game
A Central Florida company behind a virtual reality game that teaches students about the elements is in line for a $225,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Software
May 22, 2019
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Neanderthals didn't need Nintendos: Why we always choose story over technology
Picture the scene – we're in ancient times and a group of cave people are gathered around a fire telling stories about their day (there's evidence of storytelling by way of cave art over 30,000 years ago).
Other
Mar 15, 2019
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Live-streaming a marshland for fun—and science
If a tree falls in the Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary, it doesn't matter if there's no one around. You can hear it anyway.
Ecology
Nov 8, 2018
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Modifying a virtual environment in just a few clicks
Creating and modifying a virtual reality environment just got a lot easier thanks to software being released today by Imverse, an EPFL spin-off. The secret behind Imverse's program, which works much like a photo editor, is ...
Software
Oct 17, 2018
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Facebook unveils upgraded wireless Oculus headset in VR push
Facebook on Wednesday unveiled an upgraded Oculus virtual reality headset with power to handle the intensive graphics of digital worlds in a wire-free experience.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 27, 2018
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Designers of mixed reality experiences shouldn't overlook the communal nature of video games
Augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality headsets are gradually becoming more widespread. But the communal pleasure of video games is at risk when our friends disappear into solitary playing experiences that we ...
Software
Feb 2, 2018
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