“There appears to be a lack of research on the influence of virtual foods in IVEs [immersive virtual environments] on human satiation.” Prompting a joint research project from Stanford University (US) and Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) to cater for this academic lacuna with a virtual donut [ […]
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Recent progress in Quidditch studies (part 2)
Following on from our recent note concerning Quidditch in academia, may we also recommend a paper by Raphael Crawford-Marks, Lee Spector, and Jon Klein of the Cognitive Science department at Hampshire College, Amherst, US? It’s entitled: ‘Virtual Witches and Warlocks: A Quidditch Simulator and Quidditch-Playing Teams Coevolved via Genetic Programming’ (in: Late Breaking Papers of the […]
Rats Will Encounter Rat-Size People, and Vice Versa
Rats and people (or any two different size critters) can encounter each other on the same scale, virtually, under the scheme outlined in a new study. The image below demonstrates virtual rat-sized persons in a rat world. The study is: “Beaming into the Rat World: Enabling Real-Time Interaction between Rat and Human Each at Their […]