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Augmented Life>> Augmented Flight: Physical and Virtual Planes Compete (added 06/10/2008)Late September, 2008. In the skies over Spain, two and a half planes swooped and soared. Two physical stunt planes, piloted by Castor Fantoba and Bruno Van Waenberghe, competed with a virtual ghost - a virtual aircraft piloted from the ground by Ernest Artigas, and racing the same course as the other two.
Sensation>> Repairing and Virtualising Balance in one Swoop (added 04/10/2008)Without the vestibular system we lose our sense of balance entirely. Balance is vital in the physical world. In the virtual, it is not yet vital, but would be handy for an increasing number of situations. What if there were ways to use prosthetics to give balance back to those without, and to then utilise that same discovery, to bring balance, into VR?Enforcement Robotics>> ExoFly & DelFly: Fluttering For Exploration (added 03/10/2008)NASA is currently investigating the use of robot dragonflies to further explore Mars, and to use them in partnership with Rovers on other planets. The idea is tiny, winged robots, capable of hovering in place, and flitting off, could fly much further afield than land craft, and identify areas for the rovers to explore in depth, ahead of time.Pure Research>> A Simple Plan to ID Every Creature on Earth (added 02/10/2008)Adapted and rewritten in part from a Wired article plus other sources on the same subject, this short article takes a look at one of the many quiet revolutions occuring under the radar, thanks mostly to computing power and augmented reality thinking.
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Alternate Lives>> Cities XL (added 08/10/2008)Gameindustry.biz take a look at Cities XL, Monte Cristo's ambitious product, attempting to combine a traditional city-simulation game with massively multiplayer online functionality, giving players the option to take part in a global, entirely player-dependent global economy. Creating a world>> Between a rock and an interface (added 08/10/2008)A lovely piece from BBC columnist Bill Thompson on the oft-overlooked by commercial developers, psychology of interface design.Detractors>> Indusgeeks: Distance Learning through SecondLife (added 01/10/2008)Indusgeeks has built a platform on Second Life that enables students in distance-learning programmes to plug into a simulated environment replicating and enhancing physical life learning processesLegal>> An Avatar's Bill of Rights (added 01/10/2008)Law.com has issued a suggested 'bill of rights' to be adhered to by any social virtual virtual environment terms of service, in order to give users the same rights they might expect from a more traditional government.
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