Virtual Environment News

Posted June 17, 2013:

• Intelligent Glasses Designed for Professors
• Researchers Unmask Janus-Faced Nature of Mechanical Forces With Supercomputer

Posted June 10, 2013:

• Women Can Be Screened Years Later Than Men With 'Virtual Colonoscopy'

Posted June 6, 2013:

• Listening to Music While Driving Has Very Little Effect on Driving Performance, Study Suggests

Posted June 5, 2013:

• Firefighting Robot Paints 3-D Thermal Imaging Picture for Rescuers

Posted June 3, 2013:

• Meeting Online Leads to Happier, More Enduring Marriages

Posted May 29, 2013:

• Pigeons Peck for Computerized Treat

Posted May 24, 2013:

• Driving and Hands-Free Talking Lead to Spike in Errors

Posted May 23, 2013:

• How Do Cold Ions Slide?

Posted May 22, 2013:

• Eyes on the Prey: Researchers Analyse the Hunting Behaviour of Fish Larvae in Virtual Reality

Posted May 20, 2013:

• Echolocation: Blind People Have the Potential to Use Their 'Inner Bat' to Locate Objects, Study Finds

Posted May 19, 2013:

• Competition in the Quantum World

Posted May 11, 2013:

• War Spawns New Approaches for Wounded Service Members' Pain Care

Posted May 7, 2013:

• Optimal Workout Partner Encourages Less to Motivate More

Posted May 3, 2013:

• Individual Brain Cells Track Where We Are and How We Move

Posted May 2, 2013:

• 3-D Simulation Shows How Form of Complex Organs Evolves by Natural Selection
• Bonding With Your Virtual Self May Alter Your Actual Perceptions

Posted May 1, 2013:

• Gentle Touch and the Bionic Eye: Using Haptics to Improve Outcomes for People Given Visual Prosthetics

Posted April 30, 2013:

• How to Spot Liars in Official Interviews

Posted April 29, 2013:

• Personalized Leadership Key for Keeping Globally Distributed Teams on Task
• Modeling Disease Spread, Including Flu
• Leadership Emerges Spontaneously During Games

Posted April 26, 2013:

• Weight Loss Programs Via Virtual Reality
• Drivers Education for Older Drivers Remains for 2 Years, Researcher Finds

Posted April 23, 2013:

• Virtual, Squishy Creatures Evolve to Run Using Evolutionary Algorithms

Posted April 18, 2013:

• Hologram-Like 3-D Brain Helps Researchers Decode Migraine Pain
• Discovery Paves the Way for Ultrafast High-Resolution Imaging in Real Time
• 'Big Data’ Algorithm Used to Customize Video Game Difficulty
• Social Gaming Promotes Healthy Behavior, Reveals New Research

Posted April 17, 2013:

• Children and Teens With Autism More Likely to Become Preoccupied With Video Games

Posted April 11, 2013:

• Sleep Apnea Patients More Likely to Report Nodding at the Wheel and Fail Driving Simulator Tests

Posted April 9, 2013:

• Face-to-Face Negotiations Favor the Powerful

Posted April 4, 2013:

• Online Learning: It's Different

Posted March 27, 2013:

• Memories of Near Death Experiences: More Real Than Reality?
• Virtual Games Help the Blind Navigate Unknown Territory

Posted March 25, 2013:

• Speed of Light May Not Be Fixed, Scientists Suggest; Ephemeral Vacuum Particles Induce Speed-of-Light Fluctuations

Posted March 15, 2013:

• Mobile LIDAR Technology Expanding Rapidly

Posted March 13, 2013:

• Video Game 'Exercise' for an Hour a Day May Enhance Certain Cognitive Skills
• Events in the Future Seem Closer Than Those in the Past

Posted March 8, 2013:

• 3-D Printer, 'Bio-Ink' to Create Human Organs

Posted March 7, 2013:

• Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton to Help Disabled People Walk Again

Posted March 5, 2013:

• Ostracism Cuts Both Ways: Hurting Someone Else Can Hurt the One Who Inflicts Pain Just as Much

Posted March 3, 2013:

• Human Metabolism in Health and Disease Mapped

Posted February 28, 2013:

• Brain Can't Cope With Making a Left-Hand Turn and Talking on Hands-Free Cell Phone

Posted February 27, 2013:

• New Technology for Animation Film Experts

Posted February 26, 2013:

• Newly Observed Properties of Vacuums: Light Particles Illuminate the Vacuum

Posted February 22, 2013:

• With Robots, Humans Face 'New Society'

Posted February 21, 2013:

• Writing Without Keyboard: Handwriting Recognition on the Wrist

Posted February 17, 2013:

• Brain Prostheses Create a Sense of Touch: Infrared Signaling Could Create Sense of Touch in Artificial Limbs

Posted February 14, 2013:

• Endurance Test of an Offshore Wind Turbine in the Laboratory

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