News tagged with visual realism

The Next Best Thing to You

May 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Have you ever wished you could be in two places at once? Perhaps you've had the desire to create a copy of yourself that could stand in for you at a meeting, freeing you up to work on more ...

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Giant alien robots start life as sketches

Technology / Hi Tech

Jun 26, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 5

(AP) -- Giant alien robots don't actually exist. So the dozens featured in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" had to be built from the ground up.

Noncorrectable vision problems associated with shorter lifespan in older adults

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Oct 12, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Visual problems that cannot be corrected are associated with increased risk of death among individuals between the ages of 49 and 74, and all visual impairments may be associated with the risk of death in older adults, according ...

Verbal sexual content on TV more powerful than visual images

Other Sciences /

Jun 03, 2005 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 0

The attitudes and beliefs that young people have about sex may be more swayed by what they hear on television, rather than what they see, according to a University of Michigan researcher. A recent study by ...

Haptics: just reach out and touch, virtually

Technology / Engineering

Jan 25, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 1

European researchers have pioneered a breakthrough interface that allows people to touch, stretch and pull virtual fabrics that feel like the real thing. The new multi-modal software linked to tactile hardware ...

NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPU Comes to Notebooks

Electronics / Hardware

Nov 19, 2007 | 3.8 / 5 (6) | 0

This holiday season a new era of PC games, featuring advanced new graphics effects, will immerse gamers in cinematic realism like never before. Games like Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3, and Call of Duty 4 are ...

Looming sounds boost visual perception

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Oct 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (8) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it’s the sound of a speeding car approaching from out of the blue, or the faint echo of footsteps following you along a dark street, such looming sounds not only make our ears prick ...

Pink Visual software lets iPhones map sexual exploits

Technology / Software

Sep 29, 2009 | 1 / 5 (3) | 0

Adult entertainment studio Pink Visual on Tuesday unleashed software that lets people use iPhones to map sexual exploits.

Computer Science Fog Machine Improves Computer Graphics

Technology / Computer Sciences

Apr 16, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (18) | 0

UC San Diego computer scientists have created a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a lighthouse ...

AMD Delivers HDTV Experience for Mac

Electronics / Hardware

Nov 14, 2007 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0

AMD today announced the new ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo USB for Mac – a new HDTV experience for Mac users. ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo USB for Mac integrates two TV tuners to receive off-the-air ATSC/HDTV broadcasts as well as analog ...