Here we describe a vision of VR games that combine the best features of gaming and VR: large, persistent worlds experienced in photorealistic settings with full immersion. For example, Figure 1 illustrates a hypothetical immersive VR game that could be developed using current technologies, including real-time, cinematic-quality graphics; a panoramic ...

The use of new technologies, particularly virtual reality, is not new in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD): VR is used to facilitate the activation of the traumatic event during exposure therapy. However, during the therapy, VR is a new and distinct realm, separate from the emotions and behaviors ...

This article argues that the scope and importance of squatting has been greatly understated in discussions of nineteenth-century urban development. Period newspapers reported often on the struggle of cities and titleholders across North America to evict squatters, indicating that squatters were a common and persistent component of the city landscape. ...

We discovered an interesting perceptual distortion in our office where an upright lamp in front of a bookshelf was noticeably curved to form several subtle S-shaped bends. We realized that the books in the bookshelf fell in a particular manner, leaning in alternative directions, which caused the straight lamp to ...

Abstract The use of new technologies, particularly virtual reality, is not new in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD): VR is used to facilitate the activation of the traumatic event during exposure therapy. However, during the therapy, VR is a new and distinct realm, separate from the emotions and ...

As scientists, we strive for highly controlled conditions. The real world, however, is noisy. Complex networks are a coping mechanism for an erratic environment.

The responsibilities of the clinical engineering and information technology departments are intersecting more and more. Here are some real-world examples of the challenges that can emerge, and our recommendations for developing effective collaboration between the two groups.

"Interreality" is a personalized immersive e-therapy whose main novelty is a hybrid, closed-loop empowering experience bridging physical and virtual worlds. The main feature of interreality is a twofold link between the virtual and the real world: (a) behavior in the physical world influences the experience in the virtual one; (b) ...

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We look at general brane worlds in six-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We find the general matching conditions for the brane world, which remarkably give precisely the four-dimensional Einstein equations for the brane, even when the extra dimensions are noncompact and have infinite volume. Relaxing regularity of the curvature in the vicinity ...

The philosophy of Kitaro Nishida is a basic metaphysics that intends to have a perspective beyond both Eastern and Western traditions. Nishida holds that the fundamental reality of the world appears from "the place of the absolute nothingness." Nishida's thought can be seen to have striking relationships to certain aspects ...

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This paper, while seeking to expose some of the basic ideas of Hindu cosmology, focuses on the philosophical and soteriological dimensions of the notions of "beginning" and "beginningless" in the discourses associated with dominant world-religions. It is hoped that a deeper grasp of these issues in a multi-religious context will ...

Human cloning has fired the imaginations of many writers since Aldous Huxley published Brave New World in 1932, though no hint of cloning is seen in prior works such as the science fiction writings of H. G. Wells or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Where did Huxley's ideas come from?

Numerical analyses (correspondence analysis, ascending hierarchical classification, and cladistics) were done with morphological characters of adult phlebotomine sand flies. The resulting classification largely confirms that of classical taxonomy for supra-specific groups from the Old World, though the positions of some groups are adjusted. The taxa Spelaeophlebotomus Theodor 1948, Idiophlebotomus Quate ...

The Mhorr gazelle (Gazella dama mhorr) became extinct in the wild in the 1960s. The current world zoo population amounts to some 240 animals, going back to only 12 founders. In a cooperate international operation Mhorr gazelles of European zoo populations were successfully reintroduced to national parks and nature reserves ...

Nike's advertising slogans--"Bo Knows," "Just Do It," and "There Is No Finish Line"--have moved beyond advertising into popular expression. Its athletic footwear and clothing have become a piece of Americana. Its brand name is as well known around the world as IBM and Coke. Behind the slogans and the flashy ...

"It gave me a feeling of importance, you know, kind of like, I felt like I was the whole-the whole world was revolving around me ... where you feel like you are that important and you find yourself withdrawing from everything that is real, and you live in a type ...