Pendulum Links Virtual Reality To Real System

Pendulum Links Virtual Reality To Real System: "What's nerdier than creating an online avatar that fights dragons and raids strongholds? Creating a virtual pendulum that you can sync up to your real-life pendulum. Leave it to physicists to do just that, resulting in a mixed reality state in which the two pendulums swing as one."

Mathematician Work To Make Virtual Surgery A Reality

Mathematician Work To Make Virtual Surgery A Reality: "A surgeon accidentally kills a patient, undoes the error and starts over again. Can mathematics make such science fiction a reality?"

'Virtual Iraq' Simulation To Study Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

'Virtual Iraq' Simulation To Study Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: "Weill Cornell Medical College researchers are using a virtual reality simulation called 'Virtual Iraq' to better understand how symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develop. In their ongoing research trial, participating Iraq War and Gulf War veterans with and without PTSD are shown a brief, 3-D virtual-reality simulation of an urban combat scenario. They wear a headset, through which they hear, see, and — using a keypad — 'move' through a 'virtual world' in which images change in a natural way along with head and body movement."

Virtual Reality For Virtual Eternity

Virtual Reality For Virtual Eternity: "Imagine having a discussion with Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein on the nature of the universe, where their 3-D, life-sized representations looked you in the eye, examined your body language, considered voice nuances and phraseology of your questions, then answered you in a way that is so real you would swear the images were alive."

Getting There Faster With Virtual Reality

Getting There Faster With Virtual Reality: "Is the navigation system too complex? Does it distract the driver’s attention from the traffic? To test electronic assistants, their developers have to build numerous prototypes – an expensive and time-consuming business. Tests in a virtual world make prototypes unnecessary."

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

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. Spatial memory is the memory of how things are oriented in space and how to get to them. Researchers found that depressed people performed poorly on the video game compared with nondepressed people, suggesting that their hippocampi were not working properly."

Coming Soon: The Most Realistic Virtual Reality Room In The World

Coming Soon: The Most Realistic Virtual Reality Room In The World: "You're high above the desert peaks. Your aircraft are approaching their targets. Information from instruments, cameras and radar is before your eyes. And with the help of 100 million pixels of bright and vivid virtual reality you're in control of a swarm of U.S. Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles."