Neurosurgeons Practice on Virtual Simulator before Removing Brain Tumor
Science Virtual simulators reach a medical milestone as warm-up for a real-life operation This simulator goes far beyond the olden days of the board game "Operation." Last month, for the first time,...
View ArticleVideo: Raytheon's Free Roaming Combat Simulator Lets You Feel Getting Shot
Technology A new combat simulator lets you toss real flash-bangs and feel the consequences of getting shot by virtual enemies First-person-shooter video games have nothing on a new combat simulator by...
View ArticleSpanish Military Tests Swarm Intelligence on Video Game Battlefield
Technology The Spanish army is using ant colony algorithms to plot the best paths through future battlefields Moving through real-life battlefields inevitably proves trickier than playing a game of...
View ArticleVideo Game Teaches Cambodian Kids to Avoid Real Landmines
Gadgets Warning: this game may have beneficial real-life consequences Cambodian children grow up in a nation where millions of landmines left by decades of civil war have continued to cripple and kill...
View ArticleThe DoD Wants to Train Soldiers in Immersive Video Games that Respond to EEG,...
Technology U.S. armed forces have been using video games to train troops for years, but the Office of the SecDef wants something way cooler than the combat simulators of yore. The OSD… U.S. armed...
View ArticleTwo Key Advances Bring Quantum Computers Closer to Reality Than Ever
Gadgets Researchers on two continents are reporting two big breakthroughs in quantum computing today — a quantum system built on the familiar von Neumann processor-memory… Researchers on two...
View ArticleRec-Room Cockpit: How One Reader Built His Own Flight Simulator
Gadgets Clint Fishburne, a regional-airline pilot based in Atlanta, wanted to help his children develop the body movement and muscle memory necessary to fly and land a plane. With… Clint Fishburne, a...
View ArticleEuropean Researchers Win $1.3 Billion To Simulate The Human Brain
Science Europe just kickstarted the Human Brain Project with massive cash. Henry Markram, whose simulated rat brain we have covered before, now wants to build a human brain simulator one neuron at a...
View ArticleNASA Finally Has Touchscreen Simulators For Spacecraft
Space Reach out, touch space Touchscreens make it to NASA…
View ArticleTake A Look At This Goofy-Looking Battle Simulator
Entertainment Totally Accurate Battle Simulator looks totally accurate in its alpha test Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is totally accurate looking, as long as you don't mind absurdly rag-dolly...
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