Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during a summer visit to ESTEC's Orbital Robotics Laboratory, experiencing weightless motion in 2D – courtesy of a friction-free air-bearing platform combined with a virtual reality ...
Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2016
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Private v. public, virtual v. real have converged in a world saturated by information technology. It seems impossible to divide the public from the personal. But when and where do we choose to share information about ourselves? ...
Security
Apr 18, 2016
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My entry into the holographic world last week didn't exactly go smoothly.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 6, 2016
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People who have seen Earth from space report a "cognitive shift in awareness". Space philosopher, Frank White, calls this "the overview effect". It is often experienced as a profound feeling of awe and interconnection, and ...
Space Exploration
Jan 19, 2016
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A method smartphones use to simplify images when storage space is limited could help answer tough chemistry problems. In a report appearing in ACS Central Science, researchers apply this technique, called compressed, or compressive ...
Materials Science
Mar 23, 2015
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They say space is the final frontier, but it's just another day at the office at Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Applications Center.
Space Exploration
Oct 30, 2014
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Big bitcoin backers the Winklevoss brothers said Wednesday they had used the virtual currency to buy tickets into space on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic aircraft.
Business
Mar 5, 2014
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Forget 3-D glasses. Oscar-nominated documentarian Danfung Dennis believes the next evolution in filmmaking will be to surround viewers with images in 360 degrees—directly on their noggins.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 19, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at North Carolina State University have combined scholarship and new technologies to re-create the courtyard of St. Paul's Cathedral in London as it stood in 1622, as well as a historic sermon made ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 7, 2013
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A newly found asteroid will pass just inside the orbit of the Moon, with its closest approach on March 4, 2013 at 07:35 UTC. Named 2013 EC, the asteroid is about the size of the space rock that exploded over Russia two and ...
Space Exploration
Mar 4, 2013
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