Electronics & Semiconductors
Virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), often combined under the term 'extended reality (XR)', are increasingly losing their niche status and entering the mass market. Think of the metaverse, gaming, applications in industry ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Computer Sciences
A 3D mesh is a three-dimensional object representation made of different vertices and polygons. These representations can be very useful for numerous technological applications, including computer vision, virtual reality ...
Consumer & Gadgets
CES, the annual tech industry event formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, is returning to Las Vegas this January with the hope that it looks more like it did before the coronavirus pandemic.
Dec 15, 2022
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Hardware
Enhancing the virtual experience with the touch sensation has become a hot topic, but today's haptic devices remain typically bulky and tangled with wires. A team led by the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) researchers ...
Dec 15, 2022
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Hi Tech & Innovation
The Pacific nation of Tuvalu is planning to create a version of itself in the metaverse, as a response to the existential threat of rising sea levels. Tuvalu's minister for justice, communication and foreign affairs, Simon ...
Nov 17, 2022
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Computer Sciences
The possibilities have been broadened for creators in a variety of fields with cutting-edge animation technology at Swinburne University of Technology's Center for Transformative Media Technologies (CTMT).
Nov 11, 2022
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Robotics
Skoltech researchers have developed an effective—and pretty dramatic—way for positioning a swarm of rescue or research drones. The operator wears a virtual reality helmet and a tactile interface to imitate shooting a ...
Oct 31, 2022
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Software
While virtual reality has been around for decades, a combination of higher-resolution graphics, smoother tracking of the user's movements and cheaper, sleeker headsets has propelled the immersive technology into arenas beyond ...
Aug 16, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Upon looking at photographs and drawing on their past experiences, humans can often perceive depth in pictures that are, themselves, perfectly flat. However, getting computers to do the same thing has proved quite challenging.
Jun 20, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Lips are famously sensual but, together with the gums and tongue, they are also surprisingly sensitive, second only to the fingertips in nerve density. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have exploited this latter ...
May 2, 2022
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