[From TechCrunch, where the story includes a 5:33 minute video] Squeeze Virtual Reality With The Upverter + YC Hardware Hackathon-Winning Cyborg Glove [Video] Josh Constine Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 What if you could actually grasp the sword you pick up in a video game, or if surgeons could feel their robots hit bone? That’s the promise of the Tactilous glove, which won this weekend’s Upverter + Y Combinator Hardware Hackathon. Watch as we demo the Frankenstein-meets-Nintendo contraption that lets you touch objects in virtual reality.…

[From The Daily Mail; see the video interview at CNN International; a related interview excerpt from 2012 follows] Sensors that can understand your facial expressions and ‘virtual reality’ screens: Google’s Android boss reveals the phone of the future Matias Duarte said making world more ‘tangible’ is next step Team also working on Google’s Glass wearable computer Computers must work ‘as people expect not the other way round’ By Steve Robson Published: 25 February 2013 | Updated: 26 February 2013 The mobile phones of the future will recognise our faces and hands and create a world that is like virtual reality.…

[From The Iowa State Daily, where the story includes additional images] [Image: Joe Holub, graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, crouches down behind a barricade while participating in the virtual reality MIRAGE simulator on Feb. 20.] MIRAGE virtual system gets whole body involved in lab By Emily Drees Posted Feb 27, 2013; Updated Feb 28, 2013 The Mixed Reality Adaptive Generalizable Environment room, commonly known as the Mirage room, is essentially a research lab that gets the whole human body involved on a physical level, but is enhanced with virtual reality. The Mirage room, which is located in Black…

[From Time] [Image: Harry McCracken / TIME.com] Wharton and Cisco Show Off the Telepresence Classroom of Tomorrow By Harry McCracken Feb. 25, 2013 As I write this, I’m watching a presentation in a classroom of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Management. Nothing remarkable about that — except that the gent doing the presenting is in Philadelphia, and I’m at the school’s San Francisco branch. That’s the whole point of the presentation, though. The event in question is a demo of a joint project between Wharton and Cisco to use Cisco’s telepresence technology to make long-distance learning feel more…

[From The Financial Post, where the story includes additional images] [Image: Salia and Wesley Crusher view a holographic reproduction of an unnamed planetoid on the holodeck in 2365. Handout/Paramount Pictures] Star Trek-like holodeck may be closer to reality than you think Matt Hartley | Feb 20, 2013 TORONTO • On board Star Trek’s USS Enterprise, there was a room where Lt. Commander Data could experience the world of Sherlock Holmes, Lt. Worf enjoyed cowboy adventures with his son and Captain Jean-Luc Picard relaxed while roleplaying as private detective Dixon Hill. The holodeck. Perhaps no other piece of fictional technology from the…

[From Mashable via CNN; see also The Verge article “I used Google Glass: The future, but with monthly updates: Up close and personal with Google’s visionary new computer” by Joshua Topolsky] How it will feel to wear Google Glass By Pete Pachal, Mashable Thu February 21, 2013 (CNN) — What would it be like to wear Google Glass? Google answered that very question Wednesday morning, posting a lot more information about Project Glass, including the user interface, through a series of photos and videos. You can see the UI and some of the features of Glass here, although the images…