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The government will carry on with plans to require communications service providers to store details of all communications flowing over their networks, despite serious concerns being raised over technological and civil liberties issues.

Scientists from the University of Reading develop a virtual 3D simulator which depicts war zones in a bid to aid the recovery of British soldiers receiving therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder.

A New York company named Virtusphere, Inc. has created a virtual reality experience they call the Virtusphere.

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QuickTime supports video, animation, graphics, 3D and virtual reality . Apart from these terms, for most of us, using a QuickTime player to watch and control QuickTime movies could bring great pleasure.

Jogging on the spot has gone high tech thanks to an omni-directional treadmill that allows you to walk in any direction while staying centered on the treadmill.

Boeing and its partner Bell Helicopter have received a contract from the U.S. Navy to upgrade the CV-22 Cabin Part Task Trainer with modifications including an Aircrew Flight Simulation that deploys a fused reality system that fuses video images with virtual reality.

The center will help in the development of integrated gasification combined cycle power plants with carbon capture technology.

The automobile, moving pictures, personal computers, cell phones, and social networks - all of these technologies, once considered frivolous, have made such a huge impact on our culture that our daily lives would change dramatically without them.

The haunting sound of an Islamic call to prayer echoes around you as you walk through the Iraqi town, litter blowing across the street and market traders standing next to their stalls.

When you use virtual reality technology not to portray imaginary worlds but to "annotate" the real world, you get augmented reality &mdash which may soon help Marine mechanics carry out repairs : A user wears a head-worn display, and the AR system provides assistance by showing 3-D arrows that point to a relevant component, text instructions, ...

A recent study by four academics, including professors from Harvard Business School and Duke University, suggests that online dating sites regularly leave users disappointed because they present potential matches as a rundown of characteristics -- age, race, religion, income -- that in no way embody the full measure of a person.

Vitamins and laundry detergent, they assert, are quantifiable things that can be purchased with reliable satisfaction through the Internet. Romantic partners, however, must be experienced to be properly evaluated, like a restaurant or a perfume.

It's been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But with advances in computer graphics capabilities, more recent cognitive theory related to multimedia learning suggests that very visually complex images could actually hinder learning.

A Simon Fraser University criminology researcher is using virtual environments to test the perceptions of Vancouverites about crime in their neighbourhood.

Battling one's cigarette demons in a virtual world may prove to be an effective way to help people quit smoking, a research team has found in a preliminary study.

A recent study by the GRAP Occupational Psychology Clinic and University of Quebec in Gatineau found that smokers who destroyed cigarettes in a virtual-reality environment many times over a period of months reported having less of a tobacco addiction than those who were assigned another virtual-reality task.

New Rochelle, NY, October 27, 2009-Smokers who crushed computer-simulated cigarettes as part of a psychosocial treatment program in a virtual reality environment had significantly reduced nicotine dependence and higher rates of tobacco abstinence than smokers participating in the same program who grasped a computer-simulated ball, according to a ...

I think it's fair to say that if you make one of these DIY virtual reality headsets , your kids will definitely be the coolest in the playground.

Invensys Operations Management has announced the commercial availability of its EYESim virtual reality immersive training solution.

It's the near future in Glasgow. The poor, strung out on drugs and plugged into virtual reality sets, are crammed into massive tower blocks.