Aarni Heiskanen of AEC Business explores the uses of Virtual Reality in the Construction industry and how it’s improving and streamlining tasks, and how the technology could potentially be us…
BAE Systems is using virtual reality so engineers can 'walk' through ships before they even get off the drawing board
Oculus has found a way to make a headset that does more than just hang a big screen in front of your face. By combining stereoscopic 3-D, 360-degree visuals, and a wide field of view—along with a supersize dose of engineering and software magic—it hacks your visual cortex. As far as your brain is concerned, there’s no difference between experiencing something on the Rift and experiencing it in the real world.
As engineers, we’re constantly trying to innovate and stay at the top of our game. Computer-aided design and other software systems have become essential to our everyday workflows. They help us design better and faster.<br>Alongside the growth of these industry-specific technologies, we have also s
Architects, designers and engineers are learning what “gamers” have known for some time: Virtual Reality (VR) has a place in the modern world.
Nineteenth-century diversions could offer some clues about the medium’s potential.
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To create and exciting new future, you first have to imagine it
"VR isn't going to be a big thing... it's going to be everything."
Devices to let our fingers feel something in the digital realm have consumed millions of dollars of investment without breaking through to the mainstream.
Virtual reality (VR) can make the impossible possible — the rules of physical reality need no longer apply. In VR, you strap on a special headset and leave the real world behind to enter a vi…
Cat-branded commercial products already offer basic augmented reality to the field, but developments from Peoria are signaling a vastly expanded world of computer-enhanced jobsite vision
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From pretending to being a flying superhero or embodying a coral reef, academics ponder vast potential for quickly evolving technology
Why neuroscientists and other experts agree that mixed reality is evolving, not disruptive.
As soon as virtual reality became workable, in the early nineteen-eighties, researchers imagined creating vivid, detailed, hallucinogenic worlds. In the memoir “Dawn of the New Everything,” the V.R. …
The godmother of VR has big plans to change the world.