News tagged with 360 degree view

Doctors look to treat sick children in virtual worlds

Doctors in a domed laboratory in Canada are designing a virtual world where they hope to one day treat traumatized children with colorful avatars using toy-like medical gadgets.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dome screen puts Canadian audiences in the action

The audience finds itself inside a giant uterus. Or it flies around cathedral ruins. Or it is transported to a dark, lonely forest.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Fighter jet training dome shows 360-degree view

(PhysOrg.com) -- The word "simulation" can never be taken lightly in preparing fighter-jet pilots for combat. Training needs to provide simulated experiences that can bring the pilot closer to the scenarios ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 37 | with audio podcast report

Queens University students hack Microsoft Kinect to make a 360-degree display

(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems like lately everyone is playing around with the Microsoft Kinect to make something different than the in the box configuration. This time the modifications are coming students at ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

The night sky in 37,440 exposures

Nick Risinger has always gazed up at the sky. But last year the amateur astronomer and photographer quit his day job as a Seattle marketing director and lugged six synchronized cameras about 60,000 miles to ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Germany to Google: Erase raw street-level images

(AP) -- A data protection official for Germany said Wednesday that Google had yet to meet a key request that photos gathered for its panoramic mapping service be erased after they are sent to the United States ...

Technology / Internet

created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0