Tech Offers a Virtual Window into Future Climate Change Risk
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Online virtual world training, interactions empowers kids with social learning deficits
(Center for BrainHealth ) After five years of proven success with Charisma(TM) for Youth -- an evidence-based virtual training program to learn and practice social skills in real time with trained clinicians -- the Brain Performance Institute at the...
Virtual reality could be used to treat autism
(University of Waterloo) Playing games in virtual reality (VR) could be a key tool in treating people with neurological disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease.The technology, according to a recent study from the Universi...
Virtual reality enables real-time, internal view of patient anatomy during treatment
(Society of Interventional Radiology) Immersive virtual reality (VR) may enable interventional radiologists to improve treatments using real-time 3D images from inside a patient's blood vessels. New research presented today at the Society of Int...
New virtual reality tool allows you to see the world through the eyes of a tiny primate
(Dartmouth College) Imagine that you live in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, you're a pint-sized primate with enormous eyes and you look a little like Gizmo from the movie, 'Gremlins.' You're a tarsier -- a nocturnal animal who...
Virtual time-lapse photos can capture ultrafast phenomena
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) EPFL scientists have developed a new image-processing method that can capture extremely rapid phenomena using any type of camera. Their method, called Virtual Frame Technique, delivers better performance tha...
Virtual reality a promising tool for reducing fears and phobia in autism
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) In a new pilot study, autistic adults showed real-life, functional improvement after a combination treatment approach that included graded exposure to fear and anxiety-producing experiences in a virtu...
Spherical display brings virtual collaboration closer to reality
(University of British Columbia) Virtual reality can often make a user feel isolated from the world, with only computer-generated characters for company. But researchers at the University of British Columbia and University of Saskatchewan think they...