Virtual Reality Windshield

The "IPSE" is a car designed by Jeongche Yoon and Hoyoung Kihl that turns your average drive into an adventure. IPSE's virtual environment system recognizes outside surrounding then translates into virtual objects and living things. For example, in 'underwater' mode, other vehicles appear to the driver as sea creatures. While it drives through a street in the city, the driver doesn't see any buildings, cars and asphalt-paved road but beautiful trees and wild animals running on the charming grass land.

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Real Virtuality

At the Pioneer 09 science show in London on Wednesday, researchers unveiled a mock-up of a virtual-reality headset that will provide input to the five major human senses. Professor David Howard of the University of York, who's leading the project, observes that virtual-reality projects tend to focus on sight and sound. He said he's not aware of any other research group attempting to simulate sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.

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Creating Matrix-Style Simulated Realities

Supercomputers are on the verge of creating Matrix-style simulated realities. Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, says that virtual worlds realistic enough to be mistaken for the real thing are just a few years away.

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Toward the Graphics Turing Scale on a Blue Gene Supercomputer

Immersive Virtual Reality Process technology

Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology and consulting firm, today unveiled its Immersive Virtual Reality Process technology, a next-generation human machine interface (HMI) solution that will revolutionize the way engineers and operator trainees see and interact with the plant and the processes they control.

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Mechdyne to install virtual reality system in Tech Park

Imagine stepping into a room -- one similar to the “holodeck” of the starship Enterprise -- and performing engineering feats in three dimensions. This is what Rowan engineering students will be capable of doing once Mechdyne installs the CAVE, a fully-immersive, navigable and interactive virtual reality system.

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Open Source Chat Bridge Between Virtual Worlds

It's called the Parallel Selves Message Bridge, a new addition to the code forge of OpenSimulator, the "Apache for virtual worlds" project featured on OStatic last year.

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Media Vehicle pod offers virtual reality

Once inside a large spherical display acts as your virtual video experience while your legs are allowed to move freely on a movable track.

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