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How to Stop Virtual Reality From Making You Want to Puke
Stanford University professor Gordon Wetzstein and his colleagues are developing a virtual reality headset that is designed to solve one of the persistent problems...
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How Ads Follow You from Phone to Desktop to Tablet
Imagine you slack off at work and read up online about the latest Gibson 1959 Les Paul electric guitar replica.
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Household Robots Are Here, but Where Are They Going?
Social robots like the quasi-anthropomorphic Jibo and Amazon's far more utilitarian Echo are beginning to find their places in our living rooms.
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Oculus Rift Hack Transfers Your Facial Expressions Onto Your Avatar
Researchers have developed a system to track the facial expressions of users wearing a virtual-reality headset and transfer them to a virtual avatar.
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Microsoft’s Hololens Will Put Realistic 3D People in Your Living Room
Demonstrations of augmented-reality displays typically involve tricking you into seeing animated content such as monsters and robots that aren’t really there.
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Virtual Creatures in a Box, Controlled By You
A Canadian startup is working to make monsters, fish, and other creatures seem to come alive inside a tabletop box.
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Magic Leap
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.
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Why Neural Networks Look Set to Thrash the Best Human Go Players For the First Time
University of Edinburgh researchers have applied machine-learning techniques and a vast database of games to train a neural network to find the next move in a...
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Lcd Hacking Trick Could Make Virtual Reality More Real
Virtual reality systems could gain a new dimension of realism from a prototype headset that can quadruple the pixel density of a liquid crystal display panel.
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No Man's Sky: A Vast Game Crafted By Algorithms
Sean Murray, one of the creators of the computer game No Man's Sky, can't guarantee that the virtual universe he is building is infinite, but he's certain that,...
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The Complex Mathematics of Robot Wrestling
Researchers at Utsunomiya University in Japan have written a mathematical model for the sport of wrestling, which they have tested in a numerical simulation.
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Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future
It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...
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Yahoo Expands Research Labs in Search of Personalized, Mobile Experiences
There are many conflicting opinions about what troubled Web giant Yahoo must do to turn itself around, but critics and company leaders at least agree on one thing...
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An App-Led Walk Down Memory Lane
The Memoir iPhone app accesses photos and status updates from a user's social networks based on the user's location, what is going on, and who else is around.
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In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps Into Smart Watches
The age of wearable computing is upon us.
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More Connected Homes, More Problems
As a growing number of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley worry that digital ne'er-do-wells will get new ways to...
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The Future of Graphics and Gaming
See the best new ideas in computer graphics and interaction from last week’s Siggraph conference.
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Touch Screen Ids sers via Fingerprints
Tabletop computers have not exactly taken the world by storm, as some predicted they would.
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The Internet of Cars Is Approaching a Crossroads
The phrase "vehicle-to-vehicle communications" might currently mean little more than a few choice words hurled through an open car window.
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