virtual reality
RSS virtual realityAugmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News Today's increasingly feature-packed smartphones are likely to propel the use of augmented reality into the mainstream in the coming years. Augmented reality - the process of superimposing digital... [26 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet However, the reality is a little less high flying: there are just 350,000 books available for download - although more are promised in the future - and the device itself can store around 1,500. The text is displayed on... [07 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment In reality the biggest threats are probably cyber attacks and what I call weapons of mass disruption. Of course there is another alternative: it all goes virtual! So warfare might ultimately become a big... [28 Aug 2009]
Minority Report: Mac tablet? I remain unconvinced
Comment Once again, Apple enters the realms of hyper-reality. Then try tapping on a virtual keyboard. The rumour mill is in overdrive with reports - yet again - that Apple will soon unveil a Mac tablet. Seb... [18 Aug 2009]
Immersive Connected Experiences: How Connected Visual Computing Will Change the Virtual World as Well as the Actual World
White Paper Initial examples of ICE include two main categories: Simulated Environments such as virtual worlds, online multiplayer games and 3-D movies, and Augmented Reality where images from the real world are... [05 Aug 2009]
Photos: Intel's experimental tech unveiled
Photo Think of it as virtual reality combined with teleconferencing. Intel Labs researchers demonstrated some of its new technology at the Intel Research Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,... [22 Jun 2009]
iPhone OS 3.0: Landing Wednesday
News Many of the iPhone's long-awaited features will finally become a reality on Wednesday when Apple rolls out iPhone OS 3.0. Apple has also bundled in some extras, like landscape virtual keyboard for... [17 Jun 2009]
Saint Paul College Saves Nearly 70% With Distributed Sun Solution
White Paper The department is also using Sun's Project Wonderland as part of an innovative immersive virtual reality teaching project. Founded in 1910, Minnesota's Saint Paul College is a two-year technical college... [12 Jun 2009]
iPhone apps, Antique PCs, Microsoft R&D and supercomputers
Photo Pictured here is part of an augmented reality demonstration by software giant, where animated bubbles are placed over actual camera footage. The idea is for the user to follow the direction of the bubbles with the camera... [02 Jun 2009]
Data Centers and Server Farms Enter a Virtual Reality: Verizon Consolidates, Virtualizes Servers to Help Improve Efficiency and Conserve Energy
White Paper Virtualization uncouples operating systems and applications from the physical hardware to allow a server, networking or storage device to run multiple, isolated and diverse virtual environments. These resources are... [30 May 2009]
Photos: What's brewing inside Microsoft Research?
Photo Microsoft Research recently opened the doors to its research and development facility in Cambridge and silicon.com went along to take a look at the technology being worked on - from augmented reality and Microsoft's... [13 May 2009]
Tech to cure crop failure and look inside Einstein's mind?
News The work could lead to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and virtual reality, leading to the development of technologies such as a care companion for the elderly or a 'nomenclator' - a device that... [12 Mar 2009]
Transportation Incident Management: Using 3D Virtual Worlds to Train First Responders
White Paper Through a Steering Committee of police, fire, EMT, towing recovery, and transportation officials, the Coalition appropriated $1.4 million dollars for the development of the Virtual Incident Management Training System,... [10 Mar 2009]
Legal Eye: Does Home Office online surveillance go too far?
Comment The reality is that most of us lead fairly public lives online, documenting our activities through social networks and providing plenty of information accessible via search engines. But this should come as no surprise -... [21 Jan 2009]
Using Hardware-Based Voice Recognition to Interact With a Virtual Environment
White Paper The Virtual Reality Laboratory of the University of Colima has begun an initial development of a desktop virtual environment where a virtual molecule was manipulated and... [13 Dec 2008]
