Consumer & Gadgets
A challenger in the virtual reality headset marketplace has launched a crowdfunding campaign to get the project off the ground. The headset is called Totem. The company behind Totem is Montreal-based Vrvana. This is a headset ...
Hardware
Professor Rob Lindeman, Director of the University's Human Interface Technology Lab (HIT Lab NZ), says the NOVA, purchased at the end of last year, has huge potential for training as well as educational purposes. The device ...
Mar 10, 2022
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Robotics
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have engineered a virtual reality (VR) remote collaboration system which lets users on Segways share not only what they see but also the feeling of acceleration as they move. ...
Nov 7, 2022
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Engineering
Simulations using supercomputers or construction data from CAD systems are normally visualized and analyzed in a Cave 3-D facility. In an era of "social distancing" resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, however, this is ...
Jul 8, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
The way our senses adjust while playing high-intensity virtual reality games plays a critical role in understanding why some people experience severe cybersickness and others don't.
May 1, 2023
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Robotics
Humans have always been fascinated by scales different than theirs, from giant objects such as stars, planets and galaxies, to the world of the tiny: insects, bacteria, viruses and other microscopic objects. While the microscope ...
Nov 10, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Scientists at the University of Bath have developed a quick and easy approach for capturing 360° VR photography without using expensive specialist cameras. The system uses a commercially available 360° camera on a rotating ...
Dec 14, 2020
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Software
What should the city we live in look like? How do structural changes affect the people who move around it? Cartographers at Ruhr University Bochum use virtual reality tools to explore these questions before a great deal of ...
Jul 14, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
When Apple announced its long-awaited augmented reality headset, Vision Pro, earlier this month, part of the pitch was that these "Ready Player One"-esque goggles would change how we consume entertainment.
Jun 23, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
"Try walking forwards and the magic quickly falls apart—either when you walk into a wall, or are yanked back by the cable attaching your headset to a computer." That is Alistair Charlton in GearBrain. He was—you guessed ...
