[From Aviation International News; the 3DVisualisation Service web site is here] [Image: 3DVisualization Service president J.P. Mangano shows off the company’s virtual reality headset, which customers can use to walk through the interior of their aircraft before it is completed.] 3D Visualization Service Provides Virtual Aircraft Environment by Curt Epstein October 31, 2012 While most of the aircraft builders at NBAA [National Business Aviation Association] build their products out of tons of aluminum or increasingly carbon fiber, one new exhibitor here builds them out of thin air. 3DVisualization Service is demonstrating its technology (Booth no. 2885), which allows customers to…

[From Slate, where the story includes a 4:21 minute video; more information including images and another video are available from the web site of The MERGE Festival] How Robots Saved an Artist’s Sanity The greatest artist of his generation is named Paul. By Torie Bosch | Posted Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 For much of his life, Patrick Tresset has been torn between art and technology. The child of an artist and an engineer, Tresset dabbled in both during his youth in France and enjoyed tinkering with the “primitive” computer his family got when he was 10. In college, he eschewed…

[From Diginfo TV] Change the size of food and your appetite with AR system from Tokyo U. 2 November 2012 Posted By Don Kennedy and Ryo Osuga At the University of Tokyo, the Hirose Tanikawa Group has developed an AR system that can manipulate the user’s feeling of having eaten enough, by changing how big the food appears. This system features a head-mount display with a camera, and uses image processing to make food look bigger than it actually is. The size of the food in the hands can be changed in real time, while keeping the size of the…

[From Stony Brook University; a 2:12 minute video is available here] [Image: Image of Dubai, United Arab Emirates viewed in the Reality Deck] SBU Demonstrates Largest Resolution Immersive Visualization Facility Ever Built “Reality Deck” designed to assist scientists, engineers and physicians in tackling modern-age problems requiring vast amounts of data STONY BROOK, NY, November 15, 2012 – Stony Brook University unveiled its latest engineering feat, a 1.5 billion pixel Reality Deck, at a demonstration held at the University’s Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) on November 15. The Reality Deck, a 416 screen super-high resolution virtual reality…

[From Uwishunu; some of us walked over to see the Experience Wall during the recent ISPR 2012 conference] [Image: The Comcast Holiday Spectacular, a unique-to-Philadelphia high-tech holiday show screened on the world’s largest four-mm LED video display, opens for the 2012 season on Thanksgiving Day. (Photo by Joseph Kaczmarek courtesy Comcast Center)] The Comcast Holiday Spectacular, A Festive Film Experience Screened On The World’s Largest Four-Millimeter LED Screen, Returns For The 2012 Holiday Season On Thanksgiving Day Posted by Allison Stadd November 15, 2012 Other cities have ice skating rinks, festooned store windows and soaring Christmas trees. But Philadelphia has…

[A story about presence with animals from NBC News; the article in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface is available here] [Image: Comparison of the robotic-fish to a zebrafish individual] With a wag of its tail, robo-fish draws attention of real thing Convincing droids may one day help lead fish from danger, scientists say By Charles Choi 11/14/2012 Robotic fish can make real fish like them simply by waving their artificial tails in a special way, researchers say. These droids could lead real fish away from perils such as underwater turbines, and help scientists learn more about how real…

[From The University of Toronto Scarborough] [Image: A volunteer takes part in a virtual reality test designed to determine if a cognitive impairment will affect a person’s ability to function in the real world. (Credit: Ken Jones/U. Toronto)] Virtual reality could spot real-world impairments Sep 25, 2012 Kurt Kleiner A virtual reality test being developed at UTSC might do a better job than pencil-and-paper tests of predicting whether a cognitive impairment will have real-world consequences. The test developed by Konstantine Zakzanis, associate professor of psychology, and colleagues, uses a computer-game-like virtual world and asks volunteers to navigate their ways through…