In addition, NASA is promoting its Minority Innovation Challenges Institute, a virtual training ground that can increase the participation of AAPI students in NASA technical challenges.
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When they're not flying down the 200-plus marked trails, guests at the Four Seasons Whistler enjoy freshly shucked oysters and market-fresh crab from the Fifty Two 80 Bistro or--for the non-skier--a virtual training session in the gym.
Over twelve weeks, researchers at the University of Indiana divided weight loss participants into two groups: a group that went to a traditional fitness center and a group that received their workout training and advice at a virtual gym through Second Life.
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The STAR programme is therefore designed to provide virtual and face-to-face training services and technical assistance to Adult Basic Education (ABE) instructors or teachers in order to enhance their knowledge about and capacity to effectively use evidence-based reading instruction strategies or practices to teach and assist adult learners to improve their reading skills.
Other projects include training for job interviews and a virtual-therapy app to help treat stress and phobias.
Technology pioneered by games is now being put to use in fields from military training programmes to molecular biology and virtual showrooms for cars.
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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The U.S. military is evaluating Croquet for training radio technicians to build field communications systems in virtual terrain replicating the landscape in Iraq.
And the fact that top-tier racing game players have proved their mettle in actual race cars when given proper training implies that there are many useful skills that transfer from the virtual world to the real one.
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