[From The Vancouver Sun] [Image: A giant steel dome in central Montreal shelters the world’s first ‘immersion theatre’. A 360-degree screen, eight projectors and 157 loudspeakers plunge the spectators completely inside a virtual reality created by modern digital filmmakers. Photograph by: Geraldine Woessner, AFP, Getty Images, Agence France-Presse] Experiencing 3-D without the glasses Satosphere provides 360-degree view of art projections and puts audiences into the action Agence France-Presse November 4, 2011 The audience finds itself inside a giant uterus. Or it flies around cathedral ruins. Or it is transported to a dark, lonely forest. Such are the experiences offered by…

[From BikePortland.org, where the post includes additional images] A look inside Oregon State’s bicycling and driving simulator laboratory Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on October 19th, 2011 A research laboratory at Oregon State University in Corvallis is the first in the nation to integrate an advanced driving simulator with a bicycling simulator. When the two are connected, researchers can collect real-time data on how vehicle operators react in an extremely realistic, three-dimensional roadway environment. Think about that for a minute. Imagine the possibilities of researchers being able to do everything from testing how road users react to each other, how…

[From Scientific American’s Assignment: Impossible blog, where the post includes additional images and a video] A Modest Proposal: Virtual Keyboards via Kinect Eyeglasses By Charles Q. Choi | October 28, 2011 In the series “A Modest Proposal,” my colleagues and I will propose inventions and projects that I think are eminently doable and would love made real. I love my iPad. I scan vast amounts of information daily for work and play, and tablet computers are ideal for displaying it. But tablets and mobile devices in general have a key weakness — as much as they help people consume information,…

[From MIT’s Technology Review] Biomedicine The Virtual Nurse Will See You Now In the hectic world of a hospital, a computer-simulated nurse can be surprisingly comforting. Tuesday, November 1, 2011 By Emily Singer Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a virtual nurse and exercise coach that are surprisingly likable and effective—even if they’re not quite as affable as the medical hologram on Star Trek. In fact, patients who interacted with a virtual nurse named Elizabeth said they preferred the computer simulation to an actual doctor or nurse because they didn’t feel rushed or talked down to. A recent clinical trial…

[From Technabob; a 0:50 minute video is available here along with additional details] Last-Minute Costume Idea: Cut a Hole in Your Torso with Two iPad 2s October 30th, 2011 by: Technabob If you still don’t have a Halloween costume, you’re probably left to the dregs of the random ill-fitting Scooby Doo and Teletubbies costumes at your local Wal-Mart. But if you and a buddy can spare your iPad 2s for the night, you could end up being the life of the party. By taking a pair of iPad 2s and strapping them to his chest and back using duct tape, Technabob…

[From The Huffington Post] Microsoft Shows Off 3D Concept ‘HoloDesk’ (VIDEO) The Huffington Post  Jason O. Gilbert Updated: 10/20/11 Hang on to your perceptions of reality: Microsoft just released a video of a 3D ‘HoloDesk,’ a radical system that allows users to seemingly manipulate 3D objects like balls and cubes with their hands. Check out the [4:15 minute] video to see what this means. Per the video description from the MicrosoftResearch YouTube channel: HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics. A…