Virtual Reality News

December 28, 2021

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Rollercoaster of Emotions: Exploring Emotions With Virtual Reality

Dec. 17, 2021 — To the left and right, the landscape drifts idly by, the track in front of you. Suddenly, a fire. The tension builds. The ride reaches its highest point. Only one thing lies ahead: the abyss. ...

Now Scientists Can Efficiently Screen Billions of Chemical Compounds to Find Effective New Drug Therapies

Dec. 15, 2021 — Researchers developed a new, faster, less expensive method for screening billions of chemical compounds to find new, targeted drug ...

New Chip Hides Wireless Messages in Plain Sight

Nov. 23, 2021 — Researchers have developed a method for incorporating security in the physical nature of the wireless transmission signal for 5G and future ...

New Holographic Camera Sees the Unseen With High Precision

Nov. 17, 2021 — Northwestern University researchers have invented a new high-resolution camera that can see the unseen -- including around corners and through scattering media, such as skin, fog or potentially even ...

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Virtual Reality Tool to Be Used in the Fight Against Disease

Nov. 23, 2021 — Science has the technology to measure the activity of every gene within a single individual cell, and just one experiment can generate thousands of cells worth of data. Researchers have now ...

Enhanced Touch Screens Could Help You 'Feel' Objects

Oct. 26, 2021 — The next time you buy a new couch, you may not ever have to leave your old one to get a feel for the texture of the new material. Researchers are working to better define how the finger interacts ...

Bridging Optics and Electronics

Oct. 14, 2021 — Researchers have developed a simple spatial light modulator made from gold electrodes covered by a thin film of electro-optical material that changes its optical properties in response to electric ...

Making Self-Driving Cars Human-Friendly

Oct. 4, 2021 — Automated vehicles could be made more pedestrian-friendly thanks to new research which could help them predict when people will cross the road. Scientists investigating how to better understand ...

Ultra-Short Flashes of Light Illuminate a Possible Path to Future Beyond-CMOS Electronics

Oct. 5, 2021 — Researchers have demonstrated that ultra-short pulses of light, down to 34 millionths of a billionth of a second, elicit the same response as ...

Virtual Care With Remote Monitoring Catches Drug Errors and Reduces Patient Pain

Sep. 30, 2021 — The study looked at patient outcomes from virtual care and remote automated monitoring (RAM) -- video calls with nurses and doctors, and ...

Virtual Reality Affects Children Differently Than Adults

Sep. 27, 2021 — Immersive virtual reality disrupts the child's default coordination strategy, scientists show, something that should be taken into account when developing virtual reality rehabilitation protocols for ...

Capturing Light: New Ergonomic Photodetector for the Trillion-Sensor Era

Sep. 27, 2021 — Light-to-frequency conversion circuits (LFCs) are often used to overcome setbacks faced by conventional ultra-low power light sensors. However, use of LFCs can lead to chip area wastage and poor ...

Augmented Reality Helps Tackle Fear of Spiders

Sep. 20, 2021 — Researchers have developed an augmented reality app for smartphones in order to help people reduce their fear of spiders. The app has already shown itself to be effective in a clinical trial, with ...

A Universal System for Decoding Any Type of Data Sent Across a Network

Sep. 10, 2021 — A new silicon chip can decode any error-correcting code through the use of a novel algorithm known as Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding ...

Earlier Headlines

Autonomous Driving: Saving Millions in Test Kilometers

Nov. 4, 2021 — Researchers have developed a method to validate test drives through highly realistic driving simulation studies and to substantially simplify the approval process for automated driving ...

Soft Pressure Sensor Breakthrough Solves Field's Most Challenging Bottleneck

Sep. 28, 2021 — Researchers solved one of the biggest problems with existing wearable pressure sensors: even the slightest amount of pressure, something as light as a tight long sleeve shirt over a sensor, can throw ...

Pioneering Software Can Grow and Treat Virtual Tumors Using AI Designed Nanoparticles

Sep. 21, 2021 — The EVONANO platform allows scientists to grow virtual tumors and use artificial intelligence to automatically optimize the design of nanoparticles to treat them. The ability to grow and treat ...

Largest Virtual Universe Free for Anyone to Explore

Sep. 10, 2021 — An international team of researchers developed the largest and most detailed simulation of the Universe to date and has made it freely available on the cloud to everyone. This simulation, named ...

New Artificial Intelligence Tech Set to Transform Heart Imaging

Aug. 31, 2021 — A new artificial-intelligence technology for heart imaging can improve care for patients, allowing doctors to examine their hearts for scar tissue while eliminating the need for contrast ...

Highly Conductive and Elastic Nanomembrane for Skin Electronics

Aug. 26, 2021 — Skin electronics require stretchable conductors that satisfy metal-like conductivity, high stretchability, ultrathin thickness, and ease of patternability, but it is challenging to achieve these ...

Digitally Removing Clouds from Aerial Images Using Machine Learning

Aug. 26, 2021 — Researchers employed generative adversarial networks to more accurately construct datasets for aerial images of building that are obscured by clouds. This work may lead to improved image recognition ...

A Game Changer: Virtual Reality Reduces Pain and Anxiety in Children

Aug. 25, 2021 — Randomized clinical trial shows that engaging in virtual reality can significantly reduce pain and anxiety in children undergoing intravenous catheter ...

Tailoring Wearable Technology and Telehealth in Treating Parkinson's Disease

Aug. 18, 2021 — Wearable health technologies are vastly popular with people wanting to improve their physical and mental health. Everything from exercise, sleep patterns, calories consumed and heart rhythms can be ...

Gender, Personality Influence Use of Interactive Tools Online

Aug. 13, 2021 — A team of researchers found that people considered websites more interactive if they had tools to facilitate communication between users, often referred to as computer-mediated communication, or ...

Impenetrable Optical OTP Security Platform

Aug. 11, 2021 — An anticounterfeiting smart label and security platform which makes forgery fundamentally impossible has been proposed. The device accomplishes this by controlling a variety of information of light ...

A Novel Virtual Reality Technology to Make MRI a New Experience

Aug. 11, 2021 — Researchers have created a novel interactive VR system to be used by patients when undertaking an ...

System Trains Drones to Fly Around Obstacles at High Speeds

Aug. 10, 2021 — A new algorithm helps drones find the fastest route around obstacles without crashing. The system could enable fast, nimble drones for time-critical operations such as search and ...

Using Virtual Reality to Help Students Understand the Brain's Complex Systems, Researchers Demonstrate Effectiveness of 3D Visualization as a Learning Tool

Aug. 2, 2021 — Researchers have developed unique, interactive, 3D narrated diagrams to help students learn about the structure and function of perceptual systems in the human brain. A new study exploring how ...