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July 16, 2024
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July 1, 2024 — Researchers have come up with exciting and sophisticated new mapping technology enabling future generations to get involved in creating their own future built landscape. They say that planners are missing a real trick when it comes to encouraging ...
June 17, 2024 — Using computer-assisted neural networks, researchers have been able to accurately identify affective states from the body language of tennis players during games. For the first time, they trained a model based on artificial intelligence (AI) with ...
June 5, 2024 — For many parents, it can feel like curbing kids' screen use is a losing battle. But new research has found the parenting practices that work best to curb screen time and addictive screen behavior: restricting screens in bedrooms and at mealtimes and ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Virtual reality dance made easier with crowd wave technique. Open source code can be downloaded for Quest 2 and ...
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May 14, 2024 — Cinematography techniques can significantly increase user engagement with virtual environments and, in particular, the aesthetic appeal of what users see in virtual ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Video gamers who exploit glitches in games can help experts better understand buggy software, students ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — 4.5 million gamers around the world have advanced medical science by helping to reconstruct microbial evolutionary histories using a minigame included inside the critically and commercially ...
Mar. 18, 2024 — Depicting worst-case climate scenarios like expanding deserts and dying coral reefs may better motivate people to support environmental policies when delivered via virtual reality, according to a ...
Mar. 11, 2024 — New work makes it easier for game developers to implement game aids for people with disabilities. The toolkit focuses on players with visual ...
Mar. 11, 2024 — Researchers got a valuable assist from artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help capture and analyze data from professional hockey games faster and more accurately than ever before, with big ...
Feb. 20, 2024 — A new study reveals that passive video use among toddlers can negatively affect language development, but their caregiver's motivations for exposing ...
Jan. 16, 2024 — Neuroscientists have investigated whether playing violent video games leads to a reduction in human empathy. To do this, they had adult test subjects play a violent video game repeatedly over the ...
Jan. 11, 2024 — A new wave of communication technology is quickly approaching and researchers are now investigating ways to configure next-generation mobile ...
Dec. 13, 2023 — While screen time is generally known to affect sleep, new research suggests that interactive engagement, such as texting friends or playing video games, delays and reduces the time spent asleep to a ...
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Apr. 24, 2024 — A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...
Dec. 20, 2023 — At-risk individuals, such as those with known gaming and gambling problems, are more likely to engage with loot boxes than those without. The study is the result of one of the largest, most complex ...
Nov. 17, 2023 — Time spent watching television or playing computer games has measurable and long-term effects on children's brain function, according to a review of 23 years of neuroimaging research, which ...
Oct. 27, 2023 — The privacy policies and practices of online games contain dark design patterns which could be deceptive, misleading, or coercive to users, according to a new ...
Sep. 20, 2023 — A research team has harnessed the power of deep reinforcement learning to replicate the flow of water when disturbed. The replication allowed for recreating water flow in real time based on only a ...
Aug. 31, 2023 — A new technique can synchronize media streams from different networks to multiple devices with less than 10 milliseconds of delay. The technique was demonstrated on cloud gaming, but could also be ...
Aug. 10, 2023 — Legal restrictions placed on the amount of time young people in China can play video games may be less effective than originally thought, a new study has ...
July 31, 2023 — Engineers have designed a new, shape-shifting display that can fit on a card table and allows users to draw 3D designs and ...
July 7, 2023 — Board games based on numbers, like Monopoly, Othello and Chutes and Ladders, make young children better at math, according to a comprehensive review of research published on the topic over the last ...
June 14, 2023 — Researchers have used an algorithm from a video game to gain insights into the behavior of molecules within live brain cells. Researchers used coding tools to build an algorithm that is now used by ...
June 1, 2023 — While ingestible video capsule endoscopes have been around for many years, the capsules have been limited by the fact that they could not be controlled by physicians. They moved passively, driven ...
May 25, 2023 — One researcher says we should look beyond the hype to see how virtual reality can make scientists more effective. But to realize the benefits, researchers must also plan well and avoid potential ...
May 2, 2023 — It's time to roll up your sleeves for the next advance in wearable technology -- a fabric armband that's actually a touch pad. Researchers say they have devised a way to make playing video ...
May 2, 2023 — Listening to music could reduce the dizziness, nausea and headaches virtual reality users might experience after using digital devices, research suggests. Cybersickness -- a type of motion sickness ...
May 1, 2023 — The way our senses adjust while playing high-intensity virtual reality games plays a critical role in understanding why some people experience severe cybersickness and others ...
Apr. 4, 2023 — Using real data from an online chess platform, scientists studied similarities of different chess openings. Based on these similarities, they developed a new classification method which can ...
Mar. 20, 2023 — A study used video games to test ways of balancing agriculture and conservation -- and found getting more women involved in decision-making may boost productivity and the planet's ...
Mar. 14, 2023 — A researcher has solved a nearly 60-year-old game theory dilemma called the wall pursuit game, with implications for better reasoning about autonomous systems such as driver-less ...
Mar. 9, 2023 — Fast gamers are more intelligent: Intelligence can be predicted through virtual reality ...
Feb. 9, 2023 — New artificial intelligence technology being developed by engineers could significantly cut down on the time and cost that goes into film study for Super Bowl-bound teams (and all NFL and college ...
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- Study Finds Realism a Key Factor in Driving Engagement With Virtual Reality Videos
- Video Games Can Help Boost Children's Intelligence