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RSS virtual realityVirtual Reality for Veterinary Teaching
White Paper This short paper describes two Virtual Reality projects underway to help teaching in Veterinary Medicine and describes the methods planned for evaluation. This paper promotes the benefits of collaborative research around a technology centred... [14 Aug 2003]
Virtual reality creates a womb with a view
News Anxious parents-to-be can now feel their unborn baby via a virtual reality system. The device, developed by US company Novint, converts ultrasound images into a three dimensional picture. The baby can then be felt with a robotic glove and the... [16 May 2002]
Police to use virtual reality to steer kids away from crime
News The Greater Manchester Police Force has launched a virtual reality (VR) scheme designed to teach schoolchildren how to become responsible and streetwise citizens. The programme, called VR Crime Conquest, has been distributed on CD ROM to all 350... [09 Sep 1998]
Constellation: A Wide -Range Wireless Motion-Tracking System for Augmented Reality and Virtual Set Applications
White Paper We present a new tracking system for augmented reality and virtual set applications, based on an inertial navigation system aided by ultrasonic time-of-flight range measurements to a constellation of wireless transponder beacons. [24 Feb 2004]
The Win of the Sign Over the Signed: Philosophy for a Society in this Day and Age of Virtual Reality
White Paper Virtual reality is more than only high tech. It is reality although it is virtual. The autonomy of virtual reality is even growing while gathering momentum. The classical differenciation between appearance and reality becomes blured. [24 Feb 2004]
Leader: 'Virtual' reality hits telecoms
Leader Today we report that virtual network operator (VNO) Sirocom has won a hefty chunk of business from Reed Managed Services, one of the Reed group of recruitment businesses that was taken private. It is tempting to think that the telecoms world is now... [22 Feb 2006]
Virtual Reality on a Linux Desktop
White Paper This paper discusses a Linux desktop implementation of a near-field virtual environment, the Personal Space Station (PSS), the authors evaluates different hardware platforms by discussing implications each platform has on optical tracking latencies. [03 Apr 2007]
HP virtual reality
News The company proudly presented a server connected to the company's virtual array Raid Subsystems with StorageApps virtualisation software. The company launched a new disk array called the Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) which runs the first piece of... [26 Oct 2001]
The hard reality of virtual world litigation
Comment The brave new world of virtual worlds creates a constellation of new - and still foggy - legal questions. Setting itself apart from other creators and operators of virtual worlds, Linden announced in late 2003 that it would recognise full... [14 Jun 2007]
Virtual Close: Myth or Reality
White Paper The most acute case is the virtual close, whereby the books can be closed in a matter of hours - a nirvana that very few companies have achieved. According to a 2001 joint research study by Hyperion and Hackett Benchmarking, many companies are... [24 Feb 2004]
Interactive Tools for Virtual X-Ray Vision in Mobile Augmented Reality
White Paper This paper presents a set of interactive tools designed to give users Virtual X-Ray vision. These tools address a common problem in depicting occluded infrastructure: either too much information is displayed, confusing users, or too little... [13 Aug 2007]
Interactive Tools for Virtual X-Ray Vision in Mobile Augmented Reality
White Paper This paper presents a set of interactive tools designed to give users Virtual X-Ray vision. These tools address a common problem in depicting occluded infrastructure: either too much information is displayed, confusing users, or too little... [03 Sep 2007]
Virtualization in IT/HP: Virtual Reality Made Real
White Paper The presenters of this webcast show why virtualization is one of the top initiatives in IT organizations. [02 Nov 2007]
'Digital bubbles' and virtual reality - our world in five years
News Social networking will move from the computer to the street while an "augmented reality" will become part of our lives over the next few years. These are some of the predictions from BT futurologist Ian Pearson whose job is to look at how new and... [26 Jun 2007]
Security policy to merge virtual with reality
News Companies will increasingly integrate physical and computer security systems in 2005, spending over $1bn in the United States and Europe, Forrester Research concluded in a report published this week. Steve Hunt, an analyst with Forrester Research... [13 Jan 2005]
