The website has launched a virtual reality delivery suite to help women to allay their fears.
As you would expect with a virtual reality, you see an entirely different side of people and places.
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But if it works, formation flying is sure to become a virtual reality.
Jim Dilettoso of Village Labs, who has been researching UFOs for 20 years, is in the process of reconstructing the incident with a virtual reality model.
His life is slowly transformed into a duel with the illusions emanating from the set, whose superficial images seem to hypnotise him, even to imprison him in a virtual reality.
Using videogame software code, he has built a virtual reality arm based on an arm wired with FES. Donoghue translates brain signals, and Kirsch uses them to drive the arm on a computer screen.
Along the way, Sony has managed to support competing 3D technologies, while adding a virtual reality-type experience to 3D games that also use PlayStation Move motion-sensor controls like MLB 11: The Show featuring Joe Mauer.
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The company is also (without DFKI) developing a virtual reality environment that uses a pair of active-shutter glasses and a head-tracking camera to let you wander around cave-like structures from the comfort of the lab.
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Rather, they keep talking about getting into the hardware game, teasing anything from a new console, to a redesign of the mouse and keyboard, to even a virtual reality headset which we saw them show recently.
The team behind Project Holodeck has a daunting task ahead: it has to combine a virtual reality headset, two PlayStation Move controllers and a Razer Hydra into a unified VR input system that somehow feels natural.
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Then, on the following day, the doctors were asked to perform a series of simulated operations via a virtual reality program used to train doctors in laparoscopic surgery, a form of minimally invasive surgery performed with tiny incisions and a fiber-optic camera.
While virtual reality has tried (and till now failed) to entice us into a virtual world, augmented reality overlays digital, virtual information onto the real world with the help of a simple camera, screen and software in between.
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Today, a Kyoto facility designed by game maker Sega lets people experience Mother Nature's nasty streak: a virtual-reality earthquake.
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The Matrix took place in a dark future, where evil machines had enslaved the human race and cocooned them in pods, plugging them into a gigantic virtual reality.
The day after I talked with Lanier at his home, we drove together to the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, a new virtual-reality lab on the Stanford campus.
Microsoft Research architect Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality and visual computing, is starting a new lab in San Francisco dedicated to developing new kinds of computation, based on tactile and motor experiences.
It's inevitable at this point: After having experienced a variety of virtual reality -- from gaming to cinematic -- whenever I'm about to enter into a new demo, my anxiety spikes.
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As a pioneer of virtual reality, Jaron Lanier, recently pointed out, we no longer need to make stuff in order to make money.
Key hurdles must be cleared before cybermall becomes a (virtual) reality.
Mitchell assures us it wasn't, citing the company's vision of creating a complete platform for virtual reality development.
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He devised an elaborate travel game, conjuring a sort of early virtual reality.
In a separate announcement, the company also introduced a new mobile app that enables users to use their smartphones to convert their PC into a real-life Virtual Reality environment.
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For American war films that stir the imagination and make you think, rather than ones that offer you a kind of virtual-reality combat, go back to Stanley Kubrick or Robert Aldrich.
Instead of heading to Honest Al's Maybach Acres, prospective buyers ago to a "commissioning studio, " where, with the help of virtual reality technology and a Maybach "relationship manager, " they commission a custom vehicle to be built in Germany.
He sat them in a chair and asked them to wear virtual-reality goggles, which work by projecting a picture in front of each eye.
Hotels.com is creating a new virtual world, which includes a touch of augmented reality.
Other technologies such as QR codes, augmented reality and smartphone apps are already competing to make virtual shopping and mobile payments a reality.
At the moment virtual reality has a rather lightweight reputation, and has not really made its mark outside the entertainment industry.
The future of entertainment has little to do with strapping yourself into a chair and putting on virtual reality headgear that transports you out of this world.
Michitaka Hirose, a professor specializing in virtual-reality technology at Tokyo University, traces Japan's thriving artificial entertainment industry to the art of bonsai, in which medieval nobility honed the reshaping of nature into an art form.
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