Archive for the ‘virtual reality’ category: Page 102
Aug 17, 2015
Future of Virtual Reality Series Launches Today
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: neuroscience, space, space travel, virtual reality
If you’ve ever watched someone experience virtual reality for the first time, you know it can involve screaming, flapping arms, and occasional falls.
On one level people know their bodies are safe on the stable chair, but as their minds are catapulted through outer space on a spaceship to Mars or beamed into a refugee camp in Syria —they can’t help but lose their grip on reality and go along for the ride.
In fact, our brains don’t even require photorealism for suspension of disbelief in VR. A choppy CGI rendition will cause our heart rates to increase and our palms to get sweaty when we’re riding a virtual roller coaster or standing on the edge of a virtual building looking at the ground 30 stories below.
Aug 17, 2015
Is It Really So Bad If We Prefer Virtual Reality to Reality?
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: virtual reality
What will happen when the technology has evolved to the point that people actually prefer virtual reality experiences to real ones?
Aug 17, 2015
Your Doctor Can Now Examine an Exact 3D Replica of Your Heart in Virtual Reality
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, virtual reality
EchoPixel uses virtual reality to help doctors visualize each patient’s unique anatomy and internal structure in a floating 3D image.
Aug 15, 2015
The Void will use reality to transport you to a virtual world
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: virtual reality
The Void is an ambitious project that seeks to combine virtual reality headsets with custom-built physical playgrounds.
Aug 15, 2015
The Void’s creator details his vision for unleashing virtual reality’s full potential
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: virtual reality
A Utah man is developing a virtual-reality experience unlike anything the world has seen before.
Aug 15, 2015
Company in Canada gets U.S. patent for space elevator
Posted by Phillipe Bojorquez in categories: energy, space, virtual reality
Exploring space while seated on Earth, gazing up on screens in museum theaters or at home via VR headsets. is exciting but the top imagination-grabber is the very idea of finding a way to access space. This is the present-day realm of creative thinking over space elevators, in the use of a giant tower to carry us to space.
Scientists working on space elevators are thinking about materials and designs that can be used to access space as an alternative to rocket technology. A sign of the times is the upcoming Space Elevator Conference 2015 which takes place this month in Seattle.
Imagine, said The Spaceward Foundation, the space elevator, serving as a track on which electric vehicles called “climbers” can travel up and down carrying about 10 tons of payload.“There are no intense gravity-loads during the trip, no acoustic vibration, no onboard fuel, nor any of the rest of the drama (and cost) associated with rocket launches,” it added.
Aug 8, 2015
A Keanu Reeves movie is being turned into a virtual reality game where you get to be the man himself
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: entertainment, virtual reality
“John Wick” was a box-office success and a fun thrill ride. And next year, you’ll be able to play as the titular assassin in virtual reality.
Aug 5, 2015
A psychologist thinks it’ll be normal to have sex with robots
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: computing, robotics/AI, sex, virtual reality
In the next half of this century, humans will be regularly engaging in sexual activity with robots, and maybe even falling in love with them, according to Helen Driscoll, a psychologist who specialises in sex and mate choices at the University of Sunderland in the UK.
Her comments came while discussing the technological advances that are making sex dolls more interactive than ever before, and they present a future eerily similar to that of the Joaquin Phoenix film Her, where the main character falls in love with an operating system on his computer (voiced by Scarlett Johansson no less, who could blame him?)
“As virtual reality becomes more realistic and immersive and is able to mimic and even improve on the experience of sex with a human partner; it is conceivable that some will choose this in preference to sex with a less than perfect human being,” Driscoll told David Watkinson from the Daily Mirror.
Jul 31, 2015
Virtual reality is next mass trend – Facebook’s Zuckerberg
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: virtual reality
After Facebook’s video strategy turned out to be a success, the social network giant’s CEO is now eager to completely revolutionize the way we communicate by mastering virtual reality technologies.
