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Pervasive collaboration for modern business

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Highly dispersed and mobile teams are the definition of modern business, but organising them is a hard problem. Now European researchers have developed a service bundle that could make virtual team organisation ...





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New Way of Measuring 'Reality' of Virtual Worlds Could Lead To Better Business Tools

Technology / Internet

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team, led by North Carolina State University's Dr. Mitzi M. Montoya, has developed a new way of measuring how "real" online virtual worlds are – an important advance for the emerging technology ...


The two worlds of kids' morals

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Children's moral behavior and attitudes in the real world largely carry over to the virtual world of computers, the Internet, video games and cell phones. Interestingly, there are marked gender and race differences in the ...


Concept design of a mobile Virtual Cocoon

The first virtual reality technology to let you see, hear, smell, taste and touch

Technology / Hi Tech

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first virtual reality headset that can stimulate all five senses will be unveiled at a major science event in London on March 4th.


Virtual reality games could help bullying victims

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual reality games could help children to escape victimisation and bullying at school, according to researchers at the University of Warwick.


Breathing second life into language teaching

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An international team has developed a wireless virtual reality environment that can help promote language learning and let students practice. The researchers have demonstrated their Collaborative Virtual Reality Environment ...


Nimbus and cloud computing meet STAR production demands

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. ...


More to Second Life than just sex

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


When virtual reality feels real

When virtual reality feels real (w/Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

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. ...


Research shows avatars can negatively affect users

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although often seen as an inconsequential feature of digital technologies, one's self-representation, or avatar, in a virtual environment can affect the user's thoughts, according to research by a University ...


Violent computer games have role in fire safety

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The software code underlying violent computer games can be used to train people in fire safety, new academic research has found.



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