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.
Phobias may represent the biggest market for video-game and virtual-reality therapy, and clinics are popping up worldwide.
Scenes showing Michael Douglas --who plays an executive suing his female boss for sexual harassment--searching through virtual-reality software files came off as so far-fetched that it was tough for any mildly computer-savvy office worker to take the rest of the film seriously.
Gates over the years has won at least 30 patents, including recent ones in areas as diverse as cloud-computing architecture and virtual-reality entertainment.
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No virtual-reality helmet is required, as it might be if conventional surgery were being simulated.
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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Other touted attractions include a joyride through British history and virtual-reality time travel.
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.
"I want something to be left to attract them to the property, " he says of the lower level, which also has an arcade and virtual-reality golf simulator.
Dr Blanke also asked his volunteers to wear virtual-reality goggles.
Virtual-reality experiences that cannot be duplicated in the real world.
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.
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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Superscape are well known for their innovative 3D virtual reality software - in the past, they have produced 3D shopping malls, a virtual medieval garden and even a virtual graveyard.
The same goes for the sounds-too-awesome-to-be-true virtual reality system, the Oculus Rift.
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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"There can't be many other buildings in the country with nanotech clean rooms on one side and high-end virtual reality studios on the other, " says Smarr from his hilltop offices.
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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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 resulting product which combines eyetracking, 3D glasses and headtracking is definitely a great add-on for Virtual Reality systems.
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There were a few people who didn't feel the illusion, but Ehrsson explained that this might have been due to the low-resolution on the virtual reality goggles which don't perfectly mimic human vision.
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To be sure, Minority Report wasn't the first movie to portray gesture interfaces as the future of human-computer interaction, but most prior examples were deeply entrenched in the traditional mindset of virtual reality and cyberspace common in the 1990s -- think Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.
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Some of the country's most high-tech theme parks-like Sega's Joypolis (81-3 5500-1801) in Tokyo-are entirely dedicated to virtual reality.
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Constructing such spheres of wonder, however, proved technologically difficult, and by the mid-nineteen-nineties the field of virtual reality had largely collapsed.
On screen, BBC World News looks sharper and more dynamic than ever before, with high definition and virtual reality studios and innovative multi-platform content helping to bring the news to life like never before.
The firm, entitled HelpMeSee, has two missions: to provide direct funding to surgeons in the developing world for low-cost lens replacement surgeries performed on cataract blind adults and children, and to train 30 thousand cataract specialists in the developing world a low-cost, cost effective surgery using virtual reality simulators and courseware adapted from aviation training.
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We've known for some time now that Valve was working on virtual reality support for its perpetually updated free-to-play shooter, Team Fortress 2.
Beaming combines both robotics and virtual reality and tries to improve on flatscreen display-based video conferencing techniques.
In the nineteen-eighties, he helped pioneer the field of virtual reality, and he is often credited with having coined the term.
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