Virtual Reality
VRoot.org - Virtual Reality News and Resources by/for the New World Architects
11/15/2008 6:45 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -
This cxotoday.com article talks about the virtual reality centers being used by the automotive and defense, as also various museums across India. From the article: "The centers have attracted attention of CXOs in the healthcare segment, said M.M Prasad, general manager and head-India Business, Systems Integration Services, Tata Elxsi.
A lot of people are involved at various stages before a product is actually launched in the market. For example, in the auto industry, an image is created, data is stored, and the image is then converted into 3D and circulated among the stake holders. Compared to past when people had to fly from distant places for meetings to discuss changes in design or other technicalities, virtual reality is enabling a lot of industries cut down on the travel cost.
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VRoot.org - Virtual Reality News and Resources by/for the New World Architects
10/15/2008 5:14 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -
From this California Institutes for Telecommunications and Information Technology news release : "San Diego, Sept. 17, 2008 -- Its name sounds like something out of science fiction, but the StarCAVE at the University of California, San Diego is now a science fact. The virtual-reality environment allows groups of scientists to venture into worlds as small as nanoparticles and as big as the cosmos - permitting new insights that could fuel discoveries in many fields. Early users of the StarCAVE include UC San Diego researchers in biomedicine, neuroscience, structural engineering, archaeology, earth science, genomics, art history and other disciplines.
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VRoot.org - Virtual Reality News and Resources by/for the New World Architects
8/8/2008 11:36 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -From the OpenSceneGraph website: "PERTHSHIRE, Scotland - 5th August 2008 - OpenSceneGraph Professional Services announces the release of OpenSceneGraph 2.6, the industry's leading open-source scene graph technology, designed to accelerate application development and improve 3D graphics performance. OpenSceneGraph 2.6 written entirely in Standard C++ and built upon OpenGL, offers developers working in the visual simulation, game development, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling markets, a real-time visualization tool that eclipses commercial scene graph toolkits in functionality, stability and performance. OpenSceneGraph 2.6 runs on all Microsoft Windows platforms, Apple OS X, GNU/Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and FreeBSD operating systems."
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VRoot.org - Virtual Reality News and Resources by/for the New World Architects
8/5/2008 11:12 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -
The IMMERSCOM 2009 Second International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications will be held at the University of California, Berkeley on May 27-29, 2009. Full papers are due on November 1, 2008. Here's the mission statement of the conference: "The aim of IMMERSCOM is to focus on multi- and cross-disciplinary research on capturing, processing, analyzing, coding, communication and rendering of rich audio-visual content in order to enable remote immersive experiences of people, objects and environments. The body of technologies that enable such immersive remote experiences is collectively referred to as immersive telecommunications technologies. Applications of immersive telecommunications technologies can be varied, and include telepresence, industrial automation, health care, education, and entertainment.
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7/4/2008 11:18 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -
The 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing will be held on December 1-3, 2008 at Las Vegas. Paper submissions are due before July 21. From the symposium website: "The purpose of the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) is to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing.
ISCV seeks papers describing contributions to the state of the art and state of the practice in the broad field of visual computing. In particular, ISVC is structured around four central areas of visual computing: (1) computer vision, (2) computer graphics, (3) virtual reality, and (4) visualization. In particular, we are interested in papers that combine technologies from two or more of these areas.
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World
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11/20/2008 7:34 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -A US judge today ruled that five Algerian prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay must be set free in a decision that has far reaching implications for the remaining detainees at the base in Cuba.District court judge Richard Leon ruled in a Washington DC court that there was no legal basis to keep the five in prison, and ordered the US government to release them.It is the first verdict in more than 200 habeas corpus petitions being brought before the US courts. The petitions challenge the US government to prove that there is evidence justifying keeping the men in Guantánamo Bay."The decision by Judge Leon lays bare the flimsy basis on which Guantánamo has been founded – at best, slim evidence of dubious quality, at worst, nothing," said Zachary Katznelson, legal director of Reprieve, the British legal action charity whose lawyers represent 33 Guantánamo Bay prisoners. "This is a tough, no-nonsense judge. If he found there wasn't evidence to justify holding the men, you can be sure it wasn't there." The judge, known for his conservative views, said the US government should not appeal against his ruling.It is the latest setback for President George Bush's policy and will add further weight to president-elect Barack Obama's pledge to close down the prison camp as soon as he takes office. Obama has described Guantánamo Bay as "a sad chapter in American history which has been done much to besmirch the reputation of the United States around the world".He and his team are currently considering different options about what to do with the detainees and what legal process they should subject to. One possibility is the setting up of "security courts" but the new administration is well aware it faces major diplomatic, political, and legal problems.The latest hearing involved six Algerian nationals, five of who are also Bosnian citizens and who were originally accused of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Bosnia. The men had already been acquitted on these charges in Bosnia but were seized by the US and rendered to Guantánamo Bay when they were released."It is an illustration of the catastrophic policies of the Bush administration – ignoring the legitimate ruling of the court of an ally, rendering these men away from their homes and families, and holding them without legal recourse in Guantánamo Bay for six years," said Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve.He added: "There are plenty more cases of injustice ahead of us, including the plight of the British residents who remain in this terrible place."The ruling by judge Leon is the first decision since the US Supreme Court ruled in June 2008 that every prisoner in Guantánamo has the right to contest his imprisonment in the civilian courts. Leon's ruling follows the first hearings under a landmark Supreme Court ruling in June that gave Guantánamo detainees the legal right to challenge their continued confinement.Reading his ruling as the detainees listened in Guantánamo via a telephone hook-up, Leon said the US government failed to show the five detainees who had been living in Bosnia had planned to travel to Afghanistan to fight against US forces. Ordering the release of the five men, Leon said the allegation was based on a single source, and he did not have enough information to judge the source's reliability or credibility. He ordered the US government to take all necessary and diplomatic steps to facilitate their release "forthwith." Lawyers acting for Binyam Mohamed, a British resident behind held at Guantánamo Bay, are demanding his release and argue US documents, some of which has been seen by the British government, should be disclosed as they will reveal that he had been tortured.Guantánamo BayAlgeriaObama White HouseUnited StatesGeorge Bushguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds