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It’s Virtual Reality Time in the Data Centre
Blog One can only imagine that the ‘reality’ factor will come to the fore now as virtualisation starts to seep into the corporate blood stream of IT stacks from Cannes to Calcutta. One would imagine that a large part of that reality factor may be...
[February 24, 2009, 7:05]
Holographic storage: Virtual reality?
Talkback Maxell misses the mark, and then some.http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi? story_id=12682
[November 29, 2005, 14:19]
Virtual Reality on a Linux Desktop
White Papers This paper discusses a Linux desktop implementation of a near-field virtual environment, the Personal Space Station (PSS), the authors evaluates different hardware platforms by discussing implications each platform has on optical tracking latencies.
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
A New Virtual Reality
Blog A recent DR test was done using virtual data (cloned), on virtual servers, on a virtual network and represented a fraction of the effort normally associated with replicating systems. A typical virtual machine environment brings significantly...
[July 8, 2009, 11:01]
Holographic storage: Virtual reality?
News These will become a more practical and economic reality with this technology Holographic data storage has been touted as the solution to the problem — such systems can theoretically store enormous amounts of data in a very small area.
[November 15, 2005, 11:55]
Borland’s virtual reality requirements simulator
Blog I think it’s probably one of the most emotive areas of software application development in some ways; it’s the point at which I think we ought to be able to empathise with the difficulties associated with spiraling and possibly irrational client...
[July 16, 2009, 10:30]
IBM turns virtual storage into a reality
News IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualisation products in July, the latest step in the industry's push to squeeze more productivity out of storage systems. Big Blue will announce a shipping date of 25 July for its TotalStorage Storage Area...
[June 3, 2003, 11:56]
Physiotherapy Gets Virtual
Blog Patients who need physiotherapy following a stroke or accident could soon be put through their paces in a virtual reality (VR) environment. A virtual reality theatre was built in 2006 for treatment and therapy purposes at the Cleveland Hearing and...
[August 27, 2008, 13:17]
Australia trials virtual surgery technology
News Virtual reality technology that will enable trainee surgeons to practise on "virtual patients" is being trialled in a Sydney hospital this week and could be deployed in training centres across Asia-Pacific by the end of next year.
[November 22, 2001, 15:24]
Ray Kurzweil: Don't fear the nanofuture
News Have you heard much from sceptics asking why you would think that many people ought to prefer full immersion into virtual reality over real reality? What do you envision as the predominant benefit society will derive from virtual reality?
[March 20, 2001, 11:00]
Portals in space
News And VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) graphics aren't the only suggestion of a back-to-the future strategy: Firmage's plan for a next-generation World Wide Web combines the power of affinity portals, the Mozilla browser, Web directories...
[July 29, 2003, 17:45]
Single PC to adopt multiple OS
News Software giant Microsoft and start-up VMware are bringing closer to reality a technology for running multiple instances of an operating system on a single computer. The less connection to physical reality, the more virtualised you can be.
[November 10, 2003, 10:00]
A virtual world of opportunity
Leader In one way or another, we're all going to enter virtual reality. No aspect of computing will be untouched by virtualisation: for once most of the hype that's coming our way will have a strong base in reality.
[February 7, 2006, 14:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Imagine the use of such viewing environments when designing new drugs from the cell's point of view, examining weather and pollution interactions, all the sort of virtual reality ideas that never took off because the technology just wasn't up to it.
[December 19, 1999, 21:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Imagine the use of such viewing environments when designing new drugs from the cell's point of view, examining weather and pollution interactions, all the sort of virtual reality ideas that never took off because the technology just wasn't up to it.
[December 19, 1999, 21:52]
Apple QuickTime update includes nine patches
News Apple says viewing a maliciously crafted QTVR file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution because of how QuickTime handles panorama atoms in QTVR (QuickTime Virtual Reality) movie files.
[September 10, 2008, 15:51]
Tech visionary foresees mobile-phone revolution
News Discussing virtual reality — which started with the telephone, according to Kurzweil ("you could actually be with someone else, at least as far as talking's concerned, even if you were hundreds of miles apart") — the inventor predicted that the...
[May 20, 2008, 12:39]
What do ZDNet UK's editors want for Christmas? review
Reviews And then there is the SGI Reality Center -- an enclosed, immersive virtual environment. SGI Reality Center with a Silicon Graphics SGI Onyx 3000 We're not talking a video wall here: we're talking a video room, in which you can walk around and...
[December 22, 2003, 7:30]
Intel: Sentient mobile devices will understand users
News Augmented reality — combining real-world information with data overlays — is also evolving, he added, with mobile augmented reality becoming more "compelling". Intel also plans to connect the physical and digital worlds via the virtual world, using...
[August 20, 2008, 11:46]
Tech events that are shaping Microsoft's future
Articles The reality is that there are 31 million X86 servers installed on the planet today, so it's going to be physical and virtual world for a long time. But the reality of IT is the rich margins you see around a niche technology as it moves to...
[November 9, 2009, 14:21]
