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MIT Innovates Children's Playtime

While looking at what TV and computers have to provide to children in terms of education, researchers at MIT found that both forms of media left kids stationary in front of a screen. So they decided to create a device that literally made children get up and move. What they came up with is something called the Playtim...

22 November 2010
09:24 GMT

Layar Reality Browser Gets Updated to Version 3.5

Layar, the world's most renowned Augmented Reality Platform and browser, has just announced the release of its new 3.5 version on the Android Market. The browser's new version allows users to experience Augmented Reality, without having to open specific layers or enter search queries. The dynamic content di...

4 June 2010
09:25 GMT

First Augmented-Reality Search App Available for iPhone

UDR Inc. has released its first augmented-reality (AR) apartment-search application for the iPhone (3GS) Google Android. According to the multifamily real-estate investment trust (REIT), the move highlights the company’s continued expansion of its mobile-service platform. In keeping with UDR, augmented reality...

16 October 2009
07:06 GMT

Matching Reality to Our Superstitions

When people lack control and outcome predicting possibilities, they tend to think there's something wrong with reality, that there are incomprehensible forces at work, and their frustration and previous experiences twine into unnatural explanations and behaviors.There's no better explanation to how our min...

3 October 2008
07:14 GMT

What Reality Might Not Be

Reality: everything that is, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. This pretty much means that the real world could be anything but what we expect or know it to be. Did you know that there is a great probability that we live in a computer simulation rather than that we actually exist in an ultimate reali...

5 April 2008
07:23 GMT

What is the Virtual Reality?

Virtual Reality allows us to enter into unseen worlds, created by computers, and even to influence this unreal world. VR goes from war games to the training of surgeons or pilots. It can be applied for supervising aerial traffic, in medicine, an agreement parks, in industries and administrative domains. On the other ...

24 January 2008
17:06 GMT

US Department of Defense Is Building the Matrix!

Everyone who watched the Matrix trilogy was at least impressed by the complex virtual reality developed by sentient robots, if not by the many philosophical elements. The concept of artificial intelligence overthrowing or enslaving mankind had previously been touched on by hundreds of science fiction stories, but th...

25 June 2007
08:06 GMT

Virtual Reality Could Revive Great Minds

Sci-Fi fans are used to seeing virtual avatars that talk to you, answer your questions, and even do something more...physical. Remember the virtual doctor from "Star Trek - Voyager", or "Andromeda", or "Stargate Atlantis" with its very realistic virtual archive that turned out to be a real Ancient?Those of you for w...

6 April 2007
04:01 GMT

Sam & Max: Reality 2.0

At the end of October 2006 - early November when Season One from Sam & Max came out, we were all enchanted that classical adventure games heroes came back into our lives. Under the guidance of Steve Purcell, the hyperkinetic rabbity thing called Max and his anthropomorphic dog friend Sam proved humor was just as much...

4 April 2007
08:08 GMT

Sam & Max: Reality 2.0 Walkthrough

Its the fifth episode of season I already and our crazy detective friends need to face the most terrible crisis we (gamers) could ever think of an internet malfunctioning. Trapped inside the virtual reality are tons of players that dont even realize theyve been stripped from the real world. While Sam does most o...

2 April 2007
03:24 GMT


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