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When virtual reality feels real (w/Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 11, 2009 |
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Despite advances in computer graphics, few people would think virtual characters or objects are real. Yet placed in a virtual reality environment most people will interact with them as if they are really there. ...
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How consumers continue enjoying their favorite experiences
Jun 15, 2009 |
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We've all experienced listening to a song until we can't stand it. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research may help people continue to enjoy the products and experiences they once loved.
Cracking the spatial memory code
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Researchers have shown that they can tell where a person is "standing" within a virtual reality room on the basis of the pattern of activity in the brain alone. The findings, published online on March 12th in Current Biology, a Cell ...
Scientists propose explanation for out-of-body experiences
Aug 23, 2007 |
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Using virtual reality goggles to mix up the sensory signals reaching the brain, scientists have induced out-of-body-like experiences in healthy people, suggesting a scientific explanation for a phenomenon often thought to ...
More to Second Life than just sex
May 25, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network's Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC) have found that a wide array of health-related activity occurs in the 3 dimensional virtual world of ...
High-tech mom helps teach student nurses
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Her name is Noelle and she’s about to give birth, but she isn’t a real mother-to-be. Noelle is a simulated mom who’s helping senior nursing students learn how to take care of mothers and newborns ...
FTC warns of explicit content in virtual worlds
Dec 10, 2009 |
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The US consumer protection agency warned parents Thursday that children can easily bypass age requirements in virtual worlds and access violent or sexually explicit content.
Virtual experiences can cause embellished, false memories
Dec 18, 2006 |
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The next time you're in the market for a new camera, it might be best to read about the product's capabilities in a brochure rather than taking it for a test-run in an interactive, computer-generated virtual world. New research ...
Second Life to let users filter adult content
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Second Life is getting a little less steamy for people who want to use the virtual world for a myriad of PG-rated experiences, such as taking classes, prototyping buildings or designing virtual goods.
Stanford builds a better virtual world, one tree (or millions) at a time
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 07, 2008 |
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When Stanford computer scientist Vladlen Koltun decided to build a better virtual world, he began with 3-D trees—millions of them. Now he wants to give them away.
Perceiving touch and your self outside of your body
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 05, 2009 |
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When you feel you are being touched, usually someone or something is physically touching you and you perceive that your "self" is located in the same place as your body. In new research published in the open-access, peer-reviewed ...
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