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 | Is the Apple Vision Pro worth it if I already have an Oculus Quest? I'm not a big gamer, but I have my entire wedding recorded in VR, and I love watching mini-movies and shows in 3D VR. My husband is into things like Red Matter. I honestly don't remember …  |
 | **AI policy theorist Demetrius Floudas introduces a novel era classification for the AI epoch and reveals the hidden dangers of AGI, predicting the potential obsolescence of humanity. In retort, he proposes a provocative International Control Treaty.**  ## About Demetrius A. Floudas ##  **[Demetrius A. Floudas](http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/131770)** is a transnational …  |
| | People can connect digitally in the metaverse by merging social networking, computer activities, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and cryptos. Augmented reality improves the user experience by adding visual components, music, and other sensory information to real-world events. On the other hand, the fictional reality is fully virtual and … |
| | With the launch of Oculus Quest 2 (I have the original Quest), I was wondering if anyone had any favorite games they could recommend. I’ve been having a lot of fun with Tetris Effect somewhat recently. However, I’ve been getting a lot of migraines and have tried to avoid VR … |
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| | My boyfriend got me an Oculus Quest as an early birthday gift, and while I love it, he loves it wayyyyy more. Does anyone have any game recommendations? Unfortunately, the Oculus Quest does not share a marketplace with the Oculus Rift, and since the Quest has only been out since … |
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| | Technology is evolving every single day, and both the Software and hardware are striking towards each other. Due to the massive competition, it is essential to come up with extended mobility and future rich apps for expanding and promoting businesses to stay long in this competitive business market. Some of … |
| | Hello, so I'm trying to create an augmented reality web based app following this tutorial : [Augmented Reality in 10 Lines of HTML](https://medium.com/arjs/augmented-reality-in-10-lines-of-html-4e193ea9fdbf) Im using xampp. The page is there but when I use the hiro image target nothing appears. My code is the same except that i changed the …  |
 | Got Android? Then you had better be on top of your security smarts. With Android cornering more than 80 per cent of the mobile operating system market, it's no surprise that Android devices are the number one target for the mobile malware merchants. Kaspersky Lab reckoned that Android malware attacks … |
| | hello guys i am looking for anything that has to do with virtual reality. i am doing a research on the application of virtual reality in e-commerce so if you have anything that is in line with virtual reality please help me. thank you |
 | I'm wanting to make a voice controlled program, But when I type: 'import javax.speech' into NetBeans it says that 'javax.speech' doesn't exist. I then downloaded Free TTS, copied the speech.properties like I was supposed to. It still is showing the error. I did some more research and found a place … |
| | [ATTACH=RIGHT]18455[/ATTACH]Today we look at an often forgotten and overlooked component of the PC ecosystem, the Uninterruptable Power System (UPS). In general UPS’s do not tend to get a lot of attention, they are not sexy gadgets, have limited activity and much like insurance. No one really cares about it until … |
| | According to Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) security researcher [Keith Jarvis](http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-threat-intelligence/threats/cryptolocker-ransomware/), the CryptoLocker ransomware that has been written about so much of late has infected as many as 250,000 computers during the first 100 days of distribution (staring on the 5th of September, 2013). What's more, Jarvis estimates, based … |
 | Lately I have been very interested in augmented reality applications and the many uses there can be for this kinds of apps, but there is very little information on the existing engines for object or image target recognition. As far as I've managed to investigate, the best (free, since there's … |
| | [ATTACH=right]16821[/ATTACH][URL="http://lindenlab.com/"]Linden Lab[/URL], the guys behind the wildly popular 3D virtual reality community [URL="http://www.SecondLife.com"]Second Life[/URL], confirmed details on Friday that they will be dumping Teen Second Life as a secondary stand alone project. [URL="http://teen.secondlife.com/"]Teen Second Life[/URL] will officially be closing its doors at the end of the year. However, teens will … |
 | Why not get rid of down voting altogether? In reality, and has happened, someone could down vote out of malice, or because they don't know what they are talking about. Also, perhaps complaints could be dealt with in a separate forum? In the early days of the 'net, typically the … |
 | who here like me is interested in augmented reality apps for example like google glass, wikitude, tagwhat, etc... which apps if you do use? and why do you use them. what is it that you like about them? if you had a chance to work on an open source app … |
| | Imagine this: You go to your local 7-11 convenience store, and you’re at the counter to buy a coffee. You realize you forgot your wallet or pocketbook in the car and all you have is your phone on you. Your phone happens to be a smart phone with the required …  |
| | Ah, sunny California. Brent Fouch's day starts like many other business owners'. He gets to work, drinks his coffee and slips on a high resolution, neuro-signal acquisition and processing wireless neuroheadset. Flipping on his PC, Brent moves the cursor around his computer, opens programs and goes about his day - … |
| | Hi . My Name is Nassar .. i want help in my graduated project (AR Virtual Change Room ) Augmented reality uses web cam images of real customers combined with measurements to create a True BodyTM avatar. Users can include real garments & accessories from existing wardrobe to create outfits … |
 | Hello everyone, I'm trying to compile the "Simple VRML" example, from the ARtoolkit library. The problem is that when i try to compile it, it keeps telling me: [CODE]1>------ Build started: Project: UANLartoolkit, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 1>Linking... 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libjpeg.lib'[/CODE] Now, thats kind …  |
| | Well, i'm really new to this programming thing, but i don't have a teacher or anything like that, i'm an autodidact so I really have a lot of questions on this matter. I'm trying to do a project using Augmented Reality. As far as I know, there are two main …  |
 | I'm here at the IDF 2010 conference in San Francisco, and during this morning's keynote session, I had to the opportunity to see some pretty cool technology. One of the things that they demonstrated was essentially the next generation of handheld game controllers. Think of the Wii remotes, but with … |
| | Before I ask the question I realize that selection of a programming language depends on the context of a problem at hand. Related to this I would like to know (if anyone) how many of you use which language for programming microcontrollers, embedded systems and even generally on PC. Here … |
| | [ATTACH=RIGHT]16532[/ATTACH]Yet [URL="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/09/google-aquires-jambool-social-gold/"]another target of Google's shopping list has been revealed[/URL], this time [URL="http://www.jambool.com/"]Jambool[/URL], the producer of Social Gold, a payment product that allows developers to build a payment system directly into their applications. The purchase price is a rumored $55 million dollars, with an additional sum on earnout. Founded in …  |
| | I saw this s/w once at a museum - and i wanna know if i can build something like it for a project that i need for college It consists of: A screen, with a bunch of drums scattered around, and when you stand in front of the screen u … |
| | Now that I've got your attention... I'm a web developer (classic ASP, just starting with PHP, and I've looked at enough .NET to scare myself) and graphic designer. My current head-against-the-wall focus is learning Flash. My education is in communication, which means all of my really marketable skills I've learned … |
| | Hi all, it is nice to join such a large and friendly IT community! I hope i can contribute to its collective knowledge. So, a bit about myself. Name: call me Kati Age: 24 Current Location: Tuebingen, Germany Education: Computational Linguistics, MA Programming languages: java, perl, python, php... some more … |
 | This year is not the year of the Linux desktop. Next year is not the year of the Linux desktop. In fact, NO year is the year of the Linux desktop. Every year, there are at least ten writers (Ashamedly, I'm included in that ten) who proclaim that the current … |
 | Augmented reality has been a bit of a Star Trek thing until now - you know, one of those things that seems a good idea but won't really work outside of a few sci-fi shows. Well, maybe it won't be for long. The [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8421684.stm"]BBC[/URL] is among the sources suggesting it's … |
| | Hi I am just wondering if electrical enginering is how you make certain games like those old play tv games(like play tv boxing). And if anyone knows how to do something like that can you please tell me. I know I am far from that, but this is just out … |
 | Taser International, which makes electric stun guns, is [URL="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aR6xHcnBMn9M&refer=us"]suing[/URL] Linden Research Inc., the owner of the [URL="http://secondlife.com/"]Second Life[/URL] virtual environment, for selling unauthorized virtual versions of its product. The trademark infringement case claims that the online sales of virtual products are damaging the company’s reputation and hurting its sales. Second … |
| | On January 9, Google’s stock was at a historic low – at $290 per share – it spiked upward to $380 per share in mid-February before settling in at its current state at $340. Now, that’s a lot of volatility, even in this wild stock market environment. But Google has … |
| | The news that a couple has split up because the man was having an affair with someone else playing Second Life - not that they'd met, you understand, they were having this online thing - and the wife wants a real-life divorce is no great surprise. They first met online, … |
| | Who Rules the world? That may seem like an odd question since every country has its own government or dictatorship; though in reality technology rules the world; and geeks rule technology. A fellow colleague Davey blogged about how iTunes the beloved one stop world-wide music store [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3284.html"]threatened to close their … |
| | Researchers at the [URL="http://www,port.ac.uk"]University of Portsmouth [/URL]are creating a rehabilitation programme for stroke victims that puts them onto a treadmill which immerses them into a virtual environment. Apparently the device works by using a series of moving images which essentially trick the brain of the patient into believing they are … |
| | [URL="http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/facebook-friends-not-real-judge/2008/03/27/1206207279597.html"]According to a report by the Sydney Morning Herald[/URL] a UK judge has ruled, as part of a harassment case, that being a Facebook friend is not the same as being a real friend. The case revolved around a woman claiming that the act of sending a Facebook friend request … |
 | Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates once talked about putting a PC on every desk. Now Gates is talking about turning the desk itself - or a tabletop - into a computer. Microsoft is set to announce an ambitious new computing category today called "surface computing" to try to make it happen. … |
| | Codeweavers has released a final version of CrossOver Office 6 - the software that provides Windows-application compatilibity - to both Linux and Mac OS X, marking the first-ever release of CrossOver Office for Mac. CrossOver Office is built upon the open source Wine framework, but provides additional features, such as … |
| | The International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) is planning an alternative Internet, the [URL="http://www.iavrt.org/neuronet.html"]Neuronet[/URL], designed to meet the needs of Virtual Reality applications. Which begs the dual questions of what those needs might be and what does Virtual Reality actually mean these days? Indeed, I spent quite a time … |
| | If you believe the results of a study by those chaps over at the USC-Annenberg School Centre for the Digital Future, the answer to the question posed in this blog posting title is 43% of Americans. That is the number of people who took part in the survey, were already … |
| | You know when you are invited to the [URL="http://www.stjohns.co.uk/"]St John’s Innovation Centre[/URL], part of the Cambridge Enterprise Hub in the UK that supports early-stage knowledge-based businesses and research institutes, that you are going to be in for an interesting day. When it is a press day with a focus on … |
| | Jon Jacobs has spent $100,000 on his own Virtual Nightclub, within Online Role-Playing game "Project Entropia". The winning bid for the space station he plans to use is currently being built within the game. Project Entropia, is a virtual world, with 236,000 players, who convert real cash to in-game dollars, … |
 | [URL="http://www.ideaconnection.com/new-inventions/virtual-reality-for-all-five-senses-02205.html"] I wish I have this[/URL] I guess it is good for gaming!!!  |
| | Hello all, I am starting a research about: 'how virtual reality and gaming influence our values'. Do you guys know where I could find information about the topic in the internet? Thanks  |
| | Dear all, I'm a final year computer science student and i intend to to my graduation project as an online virtual reality application.( 3D presentation for objects inside browsers ).but actually i have no idea about the best tools used nowadays to accomplish such a product. I have heard of … |
| | I was inspired to write this thread by a "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1065.html"]The end of all life[/URL]" blog and it is somewhat complemented by it. Couple of years back I watched some documentary on TV about prolonging the human lifespan (in the medical way). There was a brief comment, a theory if you … |
| | Hi all, I`m actually a 3 headed lizzard from the planet golzoid (a small cluster in the orian nebula) and am on earth to sort out your usability problems. Hmm, don`t know whats stranger about that intro. The fact its a 3 headed alien or the fact its a 3 …  |
| | Hello! I hope that some of you will be able to assist me. I am a writer who is wanting to write a science fiction book that tells the story of a young boy who is a genious computer programmer and who creates a virtual reality game. Basically, his father … |
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