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• First DARPA prosthetic limb comes with virtual reality training

  An international team led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a prototype of the first fully integrated prosthetic arm that can be controlled naturally, provide sensory feedback, and allow for eight degrees of fre... Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:45 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Artificial limbs, DARPA, Virtual reality

• Virtual Reality for Virtual Eternity

  The University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Central Florida plan to combine AI, advanced graphics and vide... Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:36 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Virtual reality

• New 3D 'flyovers' let viewers swoop down on Mars

  Dramatic virtual flyovers of NASA's two Mars rover landing sites have been made using 3D imagery from the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The flyovers give a first taste of the probe's astoundingly precise 3D mapping abilities and may hel... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:16 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Mars, Virtual reality, Space exploration

• Virtual-Reality Video Game Helps Link Depression To Specific Brain Area

  Scientists are using a virtual-reality, three-dimensional video game that challenges spatial memory as a new tool for assessing the link between depression and the hippocampus, the brain's memory hub.... Read more
  Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:29 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Depression, Neurobiology, Virtual reality

• Haptic glove to touch on virtual fabrics

  "Virtual fabric" that feels just like the real thing is being developed by European researchers in their HAPTEX project. Detailed models of the way fabrics behave are combined with new touch-stimulating hardware to realistically simulate a texture... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:27 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computer interfaces, Haptic interfaces, Virtual reality

• Virtual reality spreading in business world

  The $2 million Vis Lab at the Joshi center at Wright State University allows businesses to outsource virtual-reality work without having to buy the technology themselves. The technology is used for simulation, training, and to speed up and improve... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:23 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Virtual reality

• Computers Join Actors in Hybrids On Screen

  James Cameron's 2009 Avatar film will test new 3D hyrid technologies, combining live actors and digital technology to make a large cast of virtual creatures who convey emotion as authentically as humans. Their bodies will be filmed using the lates... Read more
  Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 9:06 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Movies, Computer simulations, Virtual reality

• Humanoid avatar plays a competitive game of table tennis

  Scientists have designed and built an immersive table tennis simulation that allows a human to compete against a computer. The objective was to determine ho... Read more
  Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:34 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Virtual reality

• High-speed VR/gaming network announced

  The International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) has formed Neuronet. a data-transmission network for real-time, virtual-reality, cinematic, and gaming data. It... Read more
  Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 11:11 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Networking, Virtual reality

• Virtual reality shocker

  Researchers have recreated in a virtual world one of the most extreme social experiments ever performed in the real world, using the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority. The results suggest that virtual environments could provide a way to... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:11 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Psychology, Virtual reality