Virtual Reality
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Going from killer app to major Web platform
News Applications that evolve into open platforms--and successful online businesses--are the wave of the future, execs say.
Tags: Web 2.0, Software engineering/development, Web sites, SMB
Intel, Macromedia see 3D in Web's future
News Chip giant and software dabbler Intel is hoping it can piggyback on the popularity of Macromedia's Flash animation player to succeed with 3D on the Web, an area where legions have failed or stalled.
Judges, students put cybercourt on trial
News In a not-too-distant future, courtrooms could exist only in cyberspace, with crime scenes re-created as holograms and trial participants seeing each other only through virtual reality glasses.
Intel, Asus partner on 'dream PC' design site
News Chipmaker and notebook maker launch a Web site that solicits ideas from consumers with the goal of producing what they call "the world's first community-designed PCs".
Tags: Personal Computers, Notebooks and tablets, Intel Corp., Notebook, Computer, ASUS, gaming notebook, virtual reality, 3G, Laptop Computer
Tech to cure crop failure and look inside Einstein's mind?
News The British Computer Society has laid out the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues facing the world that it feels could be solved with technology within the next two decades.
Tags: Virtualization, Conference, computer science, motivation, computer disc, computer, Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, information system, U.K.
Google tries jump-starting 3D Web with O3D
News An open-source browser plug-in gives games and other Web applications the ability to take advantage of a computer's graphics chip.
Tags: Web browsers, Plug-in, Google Inc., Web Browser, Graphics, O3D, 3D, CAD, performance, OpenGL
Virtual sex, anyone?
News Who says the Internet can't solve most of life's problems? An Australian inventor is looking into the possibility of virtual reality sex, according to Reuters.
Australia trials virtual surgery technology
News Trainee surgeons will be able to operate on virtual patients if the trial of new virtual reality technology is a success.
Short Take: Local varsity kicks off cyber project
News Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in the southern state of Johor, has rolled out the first phase of its Cyber Campus project which aims to handle all academic, research and administrative work via the use of information and communications technology.
Not much life in China's virtual worlds
News Chinese entrepreneurs' answers to Second Life are early stage, but they see potential for brand-building, worker training and e-commerce
Tags: Games, Virtualization, 3D, Advertisement, software, Human Resources, virtual world, marketing, Second Life, China
Can your cell phone impair your vision?
News Talking to someone on a phone while driving gives you "tunnel vision" and reduces response time by about 20 percent, according to a new study.
Sharper desktop picture comes into focus
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Logitech, Intel boost PC video, camera efforts
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MSC to get Virtual Reality center
News The Multimedia Super Corridor will have a Virtual Reality center, which is to be built by Silicon Graphics.
MMU to up intake by 1,500
News Multimedia University (MMU) will expand its student intake by 1,500 via a satelite tele-education system which will enable distance learning to six different locations in the country by year-end.
