Researchers created this virtual bar, virtual crack house and other virtual reality situations to help treat addiction. Addicts can develop coping skills.
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"Virtual reality, the new reality for Ford automotive design! At the Partners in Prevention Conference in Toronto, Ford offered test drives of their 2013 Fusion... before the car had even been built! Via João Greno Brogueira
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Google's September 2011 patent that was filed for a wearable display device was granted this week, which suggests that its envisioned heads-up display device can be controlled by infrared markers in the form of devices worn on the hands, such as fake fingernails or rings. The patent says, “A wearable marker may take the form of a ring, a bracelet, an artificial fingernail configured to be affixed to a fingernail, a decal configured to be affixed to a fingernail, or a glove, among other possible wearable items." GOOGLE GLASSES: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=google%20glasses
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New technological developments in virtual reality allow researchers to study the neurological basis of decision making in insects, rodents, and other animals. But do roaches truly think the simulation is real, or are they just playing a video game?
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By superimposing a digital reality over a physical world display, Google Glasses transform everyday life into a source of new digital information - everything from today's weather to upcoming events in your calendar. The Google Glasses are the clearest sign yet that our digital and real-world lives will inevitably collide together in the future -- there will no longer be a divide between our "online" and "offline" worlds. Articles about AUGMENTED REALITY http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=Augmented%20Reality
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Computer science researchers at Northwestern University have developed a way to exert limited control on how people move, pushing them out of their regular travel patterns. The key: tapping into some of their cell phone applications.
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Merging the real world with its mirror in a virtual world so that students can be immersed in a hybrid learning environment that permits improved language teaching: that is the objective of scientists at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid who...
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Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/11/4d-virtual-skull-makes-face-transplants-more-accurate.html... Articles about VIRTUAL REALITY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=virtual%20reality
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As the military’s enthusiasm for virtual reality training continues to grow, the Army’s got a new plan to make the programs freakily immersive: National Defense magazine is reporting that the Army wants to give every soldier a digital doppelganger — a custom avatar they can use throughout their stints in the military, and in myriad virtual training environs, from urban combat practice to cultural prep.
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May 21, 2013 8:29 AM
The American army is buzzy creating a virtual reality training program where the soldiers can train their skills using a personal avatar. Soldiers will be able to train different techniques and skills. |
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Google is venturing again into the realm of augmented reality with its reveal of a new mobile game called Ingress. Though the multiplayer game is currently in closed beta, Google has built a marketing campaign around it that entices players who were drawn to TV shows like Fringe and Lost.
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January 6, 2013 3:15 AM
Hi, dj Goddessa. No, I don't play. I want to try in the future
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The simulation assumption is ancient, though, and shows how integrated this transcendent view of virtual reality is with spiritual beliefs, especially Gnostic and Eastern religious beliefs. The Hindus called virtual reality, Maya, and believed that it, too, had internal, external, and transcendent qualities. Maya was a veil of consciousness between Brahman and Atman (dual aspects of the unitary godhead), as well as the projected external world. So, are current virtual reality technologies just tools to discover and transcend the programmed reality? VIRTUAL REALITY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=virtual%20reality
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Researchers have developed a new technique which allows them to measure brain activity in large populations of nerve cells at the resolution of individual cells. VIRTUAL REALITY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=virtual%20reality
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In fact, when we think about ourselves in the future we actually use the same part of our brain that we use when we think about a stranger. Hershfield and a group of researchers wanted to help young people vividly imagine their own old age, so they recruited college-age men and women, gave them goggles and sent them into a virtual reality laboratory where they encountered a kind of mirror.
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Lockheed Martin's Collaborative Human Immersive Lab (CHIL) uses human controlled avatars to help design, build and maintain the next generation of satellites and aircraft, saving expensive and difficult flight testing.
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"Second Life is an open-ended online world. Users design their own surroundings, and create avatars as their characters to work there. The avatars can interact with each other; they can cooperate towards a common goal, or make business deals with each other, or sabotage each other. Second Life can facilitate some interesting experiments that might not be possible in real life." Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Erskine S.Weekes-Libert
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Even the most exact construction plan lacks many details and design options. The building owner needs imagination to obtain an idea of the constructed building. Now, new 3D video glasses provide a true representation in virtual reality.
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As Dr. Michio Kaku has been predicting for years, we are inching ever closer to producing virtual reality contact lenses that will add a layer of interactive, rich information over our mundane visual landscape. The newest innovation comes from a joint venture between DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and a technology company called Innovega.
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Steve Fuller is a sociology professor who’s interested in how technological enhancements can improve the human body and mind. This could lead to a world full of superhumans, like Robocop but without the desire to brutalise criminals. Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics Via Szabolcs Kósa
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This is nothing new but a very 'traditional' use of VR. Cue reactivity and addiction treatment are a very common application. At least in the field of psychology. I wonder why the author of this article calls it a 'twist' to VR?!
Análisis psicológico de las casas de crack usando realidad virtual.