Virtual Reality News

Posted November 3, 2000:

• Purdue Engineers Develop A Chair With "Sense"

Posted October 11, 2000:

• New Computer Simulation Allows Tires To Be Road Tested "Virtually" Before Manufacture

Posted September 21, 2000:

• Readers Become Part Of The Action Through High-Tech Mixture Of Traditional Storytelling And Virtual Reality

Posted August 7, 2000:

• New Virtual Reality Technique Helps Conquer Fear Of Flying, Say Researchers

Posted June 13, 2000:

• Virtual You -- Or How To Work In Your "Jammies"

Posted June 2, 2000:

• Virtual Reality Tool Quantifies Physics Of A Doctor's Touch

Posted May 3, 2000:

• Give It A Thought -- And Make It So

Posted March 31, 2000:

• The Geography Of Cyberspace: Bandwidth Key To "Distance"

Posted March 6, 2000:

• UIC Puts Virtual Reality Medical Training To The Test

Posted February 28, 2000:

• Surviving Jaws: Virtual Merman "Thinks" His Way To Safety
• Virtual Reality To Help Train Surgeons

Posted January 13, 2000:

• Virtual Crash Test Dummy Makes Major "Impact" On Highway Safety

Posted November 29, 1999:

• Computer-Driven "Virtual" Orchestra To Ring In 2000 At Times Square

Posted November 2, 1999:

• "Shared Space" Allows Users To Meld Virtual Reality, Real World

Posted September 27, 1999:

• Virtual Reality Training Tool Pits Emergency Rescue Teams Against Computerized Terrorist Attack

Posted September 14, 1999:

• Your Online Identity: Researchers Study Human Interaction Online Through Game Played In Virtual Community

Posted September 2, 1999:

• 3-D, Virtual Man Simulates Radiation's Effect On The Body

Posted August 24, 1999:

• Members Of Class Of '03 Are Virtual Students In More Ways Than One AT WPI

Posted August 20, 1999:

• Computerized Map Responds To Speech And Gestures

Posted June 25, 1999:

• Scientists At Children's Hospital And Brandeis Use Video Games To Unlock Secrets Of The Brain's Sense Of Direction

Posted May 18, 1999:

• UB Engineers Develop Virtual-Factory Software -- Click Of A Mouse Lets Users Redesign Manufacturing Plants

Posted May 4, 1999:

• NASA Telemedicine: Improving Health From A Distance

Posted April 27, 1999:

• Electronic Auction House First To Offer Mobile Agent

Posted March 23, 1999:

• Algebra Without Equations, Engineering Without Diagrams?

Posted March 22, 1999:

• MIT Touch Lab Research Explores The Hand

Posted March 18, 1999:

• Virtual Reality Finding Role In Psychological Evaluation

Posted March 10, 1999:

• Temple Engineering Professor's Virtual Electrical Laboratory Lends A Helping Hand To Students With Disabilities

Posted February 12, 1999:

• Carnegie Mellon University Researchers Develop Magnetic Levitation-Based Haptic Interface For Computers

Posted January 22, 1999:

• Finding The Learning Curve When Using A Surgical Force Feedback Simulator

Posted January 19, 1999:

• M.I.N.D. Lab Uses Virtual Reality To Improve Human Intreraction With Computers

Posted January 7, 1999:

• Digital Michelangelo Project: Creating Virtual Sculpture

Posted December 21, 1998:

• Moving Medical Images On The Internet Using Java

Posted November 13, 1998:

• Astrophysicists Use Virtual Reality To Chase Earth's Tail

Posted October 14, 1998:

• NASA 'Software Scalpel' Helps Doctors Practice Operations

Posted October 7, 1998:

• Virtual Reality Becomes Reality For Plastic Surgeons

Posted October 6, 1998:

• Johns Hopkins University Launches Research Center To Expand Role Of Computers, Robots In Surgery

Posted July 21, 1998:

• Virtual Retinal Display Wins 1998 Discover Magazine Technological Innovation Award

Posted June 17, 1998:

• Arctic Crater Expedition To Seek Mars Science Insights And Test Future Exploration Technologies

Posted March 20, 1998:

• Internet Encourages New Social Interaction, Research Shows

Posted March 12, 1998:

• A Silicon Hemingway -- Artificial Author Brutus.1 Generates Betrayal By Bits

Posted February 25, 1998:

• The Trick Is In The Triangles: Speeding Up 3-D Computer Models

Posted January 30, 1998:

• Hopkins Neurosurgeon Separates South African Siamese Twins, Practiced With 3-D "Toolbox"

Posted January 13, 1998:

• New Software Allows Consumers To Try Before Buying On The Web

Posted November 18, 1997:

• 'Computational Grid' Supercomputing Demonstration Will Link 3,000 Processors In Europe And The U.S.

Posted September 11, 1997:

• Super-Thin Computer Screens Near Reality For Use In Tight Spaces

Posted March 13, 1997:

• Hostage Rescues Honed In Virtual Reality Simulation

Posted March 5, 1997:

• Augmented Reality Goggles May Offer Mere Mortals X-Ray Vision

Search ScienceDaily