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Web VR: Now possible with O3D
This is a demo that demonstrates the potential of rendering 3D graphics in the browser, using O3D, an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. The app shown in the video is coded in javascript and html and runs in a web browser. ... Read more ...
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Exit reality
ExitReality ’s is a new 3D web service that will create virtual versions of every social network site profile. The London startup has now officially launched its beta. The free Internet plug-in allowing the 3d experience can be downloaded here . ExitReality tur... Read more ...
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The Metaverse : Towards the Integration of the...
The development of virtual worlds about which we regularly communicate is a part of the more global process of the massive integration of digital technology in our reality. This new reality we are moving towards, where the border between the virtual and reality will become less and less discernab... Read more ...
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Brain-computer interface for Second Life
Great catch by Pink Tentacle : researchers at Keio University Biomedical Engineering Laboratory have developed a brain-computer interface that allows the user controlling his avatar in Second Life by thinking about movements — the avatar walks forward when the user thinks about moving his/her... Read more ...
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Phone calling from Second Life
Via Textually.org C/net reports that BT is developing services that will enable users of virtual worlds to call or text out to their colleagues and friends in the real world. "To test the technology it has built a private island in Second Life , which it has dubbed Area 21 - a play ... Read more ...
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Second Life Running on Nokia n800
From 3Dpoint /Via Metaversed/ Second Life resident Wrestling Hulka has a limited version of the virtual world running on the Nokia n800. another mobile client for Second Life was developed by Comverse earlier in the year Read more ...
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Toward a Metaverse
Via Networked Performance In this interesting article recently published in Technology Review , Wade Roush predicts that the line between the real world and its virtual representations will soon start blurring. Here is an excerpt from the article : [...] The first, rela... Read more ...
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Virtual schizophrenia
Via Mind Hacks The New York Times and Wired report about the use of virtual reality to simulate the experience of psychosis. The resarch is being carried out by the company Janssen-Cilag Pharmaceuticals. However, this approach is not a novelty, as several other s... Read more ...
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IBM Looks to Hybrid Platform for Advanced 3D...
From IBM news release (thx Luca) ARMONK, NY & FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL - 26 Apr 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today disclosed a cross-company project to integrate the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) with the IBM mainframe for the purpose of creating a hybrid that is blazingly fast and powerf... Read more ...
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From Emerging Technology Trends Researchers from Illinois and Florida are developing a networking system which will create virtual representations of real people to improve our knowledge. They will use artificial intelligence and natural language processing software to enab... Read more ...