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Virtual reality used for stroke rehabilitation

There are about 15 million people affected by a stroke each year in the world. About 5 million die and 5 million are left with a permanent disability. For the survivors, it is very difficult to return to a normal activity, such as controlling their movements and becoming again completely...

Tags: Patient, Computer, VR, Virtual Reality, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Linden sees academic potential for Second Life with 3D voice

Second Life is about to get even more real by incorporating proximity-based 3D voice capabilities into the popular virtual reality site, reports Campus Technology "3-D Voice" would allow "Second Life residents to speak to one another using spacial awareness algorithms that take distance and direction into account, modifying sounds...

Tags: Emerging Tech, VR, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-03-02

Linden sees academic potential for Second Life with 3D voice

Second Life is about to get even more real by incorporating proximity-based 3D voice capabilities into the popular virtual reality site, reports Campus Technology "3-D Voice" would allow "Second Life residents to speak to one another using spacial awareness algorithms that take distance and direction into account, modifying sounds...

Tags: VR, Emerging Tech, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-03-01

Additional Resources

Artlantis Studio 3.0 (Mac)

Artlantis Studio is the fastest stand-alone 3D rendering application developed especially for architects and designers, ideal for quickly and easily creating high resolution 3D renderings, QuickTime VR Panoramas, Objects and animations. A recognized leader in preview window technology, Artlantis is the rendering software used by architects, designers and urban design...

Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, 3D Rendering, Graphisoft N.V., Artlantis Studio, Construction

Software downloads 2009-10-08

Rules are for impatient people

I prefer University 2.0University 1.0 is classroom, pen, paper, and book-bound.University 2.0 is on-line classes & exams, pc-based note-taking, still book-bound though. University 1.5 is a mix of the two, call it a transition stage.University 3.0 is 100% electronic. All your books and reference materials are in electronic format...

Tags: Classes

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

TMPGEnc XPress 4.7.3.292 (Windows)

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress gives users the freedom to take almost any video file and encode it to a desired file format including DivX, AVI, QuickTime, MPEG 4-ISO, H.264, DVD-Video, DVD-VR, HDV camcorder, Blu-ray Disc. The software provides users with functions and features ranging from a simple cut-editor tool to powerful...

Tags: DivXNetworks, Microsoft Windows, Video, H.264, TMPG, Corporate Communications, Blu-Ray, Digital Video, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-08-23

Pano2VR 2.3 beta 4 (Mac)

Pano2VR is an application that converts panoramic images into the QuickTime VR QTVR or Macromedia Flash 8 and Flash 9 formats with features such as customizable skins, hotspots and auto-rotation. Pano2VR 2.0 supports cylindrical, equirectangular, cube faces, cross, T, strip and QuickTime VR as input formats with the added...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple QuickTime, JPEG, Beta, Panorama, Garden Gnome Software, Pano2VR, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-08-15

Panoweaver Standard 6.00 (Mac)

Panoweaver is the world-leading panorama stitching software. This version supports stitching single row/multiple rows of normal photos and wide-angle photos. Both spherical and cylindrical panoramas can be created automatically. Besides stitching panoramas, Panoweaver also exports 360 panoramic images into Flash VR, QuickTime VR, and Java-based VR tours. Main Features:...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Photograph, Panorama, Easypano, Panoweaver

Software downloads 2009-08-05

Panoweaver Professional 6.00 (Mac)

Panoweaver is the world-leading panorama stitching software. This version supports stitching single row/multiple rows images taken by normal lens, wide angle lens, and fisheye lens. Both spherical and cylindrical panoramas can be created automatically. Besides stitching panoramas, Panoweaver also exports 360 panoramic images into Flash VR, QuickTime VR, and Java-based...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Panorama, Easypano, Panoweaver

Software downloads 2009-08-05

VR+: Voice Recorder 2.5.5 (Mobile)

With VR+ BlackBerry Pearl/Curve/88xx/Bold owners can record any length voice messages and e-mail them to their contacts to be played back in MP3 format on PC, cellular phones, or handhelds. Record, Stop, Save, Send and your voice recording is on its way to the recipient. With VR+ you can e-mail...

Tags: Recorder, Mobile, Voice, RIM BlackBerry, Shape, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-14

Nikon cameras and lenses' release schedule leaked

Nikon Rumors is reporting that the 2009-2010 release schedule has been leaked. This includes cameras and lenses rumored to be announced at two press conferences later this summer. The leaked schedule is availble after the jump... August 4: Nikon D3000...

Tags: Nikon Corp., Camera, Nikon Rumors, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-07-08

VR-Render 0.8 (Mac)

A medical image viewer freeware. It is an interactive system for planar and volume visualization which enables practitioners to quickly explore and analyze 3D medical or scientific data on a standard PC (Windows, Linux, MacosX). This software uses fast OpenGL graphics (ATI/NVidia) and is able to load a series of...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Image Processing, Tool, IRCAD, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-01

VR-Render (Windows) 0.8 (Windows)

A medical image viewer freeware. It is an interactive system for planar and volume visualization which enables practitioners to quickly explore and analyze 3D medical or scientific data on a standard PC (Windows, Linux, MacosX). This software uses fast OpenGL graphics (ATI/NVidia) and is able to load a series of...

Tags: Image Processing, Tool, IRCAD, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-01

IBM's latest campaign against paper

You've got to love all the statistics that high-tech companies use to express the return on investment of their green IT offering du jour. Here is a new-ish one from IBM: the average office worker uses roughly 10,000 sheets of copy paper year. (Notice that does not mention printer output,...

Tags: IBM Corp., Content Management, Web Technology, Outsourcing, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Apimac Slideshow 9.5 (Mac)

Apimac Slideshow is a slideshow and presentation tool for multimedia files, movies, sounds and images that allows you to quickly and easily create slideshow presentations and portfolios that can be distributed as freestanding programs for Mac and Windows or as movie files optimized for YouTube, CD-ROMs, the Web, iPod, mobile...

Tags: Multimedia, Apple Macintosh, Slideshow, Presentation, Apimac, Apimac Slideshow

Software downloads 2009-06-24

Nikon Coolpix P90

Photo gallery:Nikon Coolpix P90Nikon joins the ranks of manufacturers ramping up their top-of-the-line megazoom models to 24x. The replacement for the Nikon Coolpix P80, the P90, outzooms its 18x predecessor with a 24x f2.8-5 26-624mm-equivalent lens, and outpixels it by upping the resolution from 10 megapixels to 12. More useful,...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Nikon Corp., Nikon Coolpix, Nikon Coolpix P90, PASM, ISO, CCD

Product reviews 2009-06-15

CubeWorld 1.0.1 (Mobile)

CubeWorld is a 3D Cubic Panorama viewer for iPhone. With this application you will be able to download, manage and experience 3D images using iPhone touch and accelerometer capabilities. Using its several options it will be possible to tune the interaction with 3D panoramas, so to make the immersion into...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3D, Mobile, Panorama, Marco Giorgini, CubeWorld

Software downloads 2009-06-11

Bixorama 1.4.3 (Windows)

Bixorama can convert between 11 different panorama formats including Apple's QuickTime VR, Microsoft's DirectX DDS, angular maps, sphere maps, and various cube map layouts. Bixorama can import AND export the following 11 formats: QuickTime VR .MOV; DirectX .DDS; Latitiude Longitude; Horizontal Cross; Vertical Cross; Strip; Strip XYZ; Single Files. This...

Tags: Apple QuickTime, Microsoft Windows, DirectX, Cross, Outerspace Software, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-06-03

Panoweaver Standard 6.0 (Windows)

Panoweaver is the world-leading panorama stitching software. This version supports stitching single row/multiple rows of normal photos and wide-angle photos. Both spherical and cylindrical panoramas can be created automatically. Besides stitching panoramas, Panoweaver also exports 360 panoramic images into Flash VR, QuickTime VR, and Java-based VR tours. Main Features: 1.Stitch...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Panorama, Easypano, Panoweaver

Software downloads 2009-05-22

Easypano Studio Standard 2009 (Windows)

Easypano Studio Standard 2009 has got all you need in creating a high quality flash panorama and making interactive virual tours. Panoweaver 6.0 Standard and Tourweaver 4.0 Standard together in this pack make professional virtual tours easily and fast. Panoweaver is the world-leading panorama stitching software. This version supports stitching...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Panorama, Easypano, Easypano Studio Standard 2009, Panoweaver

Software downloads 2009-05-21