[From The Ottawa Citizen] [Image: Psychologist Kieron O’Connor, shown with a computer screen loaded with 3-D images from a hoarder’s stash, is conducting research into virtual reality therapies at the University of Quebec Outaouais in Gatineau.] Hoarding: The virtual reality of clutter By Maria Cook September 28, 2010 Psychologist Kieron O’Connor has compiled a list 30 pages long of different objects he has seen hoarders accumulate. The list includes newspapers, empty cornflake packages and toilet paper rolls. “It’s a very difficult problem to treat,” he says. “People collect things and they can’t get rid of them. They build up at…

[From GlobalPost, where the story includes a short video]   [Image: A visitor plays a new 3D game on Sony Corp’s PlayStation 3 motion-sensitive controller “Move” at Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, east of Tokyo Sept. 16, 2010. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)] Tokyo Game Show: Gamers go all out In Japan, it’s surreal reality meets virtual reality. By Jason Overdorf September 27, 2010 TOKYO, Japan — High atop a 30-foot tower built to showcase Microsoft’s new Xbox360 Kinect, Japanese models kitted out in short-shorts, pigtails and sneakers scrambled to kick their virtual selves into high gear before a giant, cinema-sized screen. As…

[From the web site of Stanford University’s School of Medicine] SEPT. 27, 2010 5 questions: Gaba on the LKSC’s simulation-based learning As associate dean for immersive and simulation-based learning, David Gaba, MD, has played a major role in the development of the Hon Mai and Joseph Goodman Center for Simulation and Immersive Learning — a virtual hospital floor on the ground level of the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge and one of the world’s largest medical simulation facilities. An internationally-renowned expert in this type of experiential, hands-on learning, Gaba, professor of anesthesiology, recently discussed the history of the…

[From The UK’s Independent] [Image: Crazy horses: Eadweard Muybridge’s studies of motion looked comically wrong to his peers] Tom Sutcliffe: Are we still backing the wrong horse? The week in culture Friday, 17 September 2010 There’s a venerable story about the painter Constable which is often cited by writers who want us to recognise that he was a modern pioneer, rather than an exemplar of chocolate-box traditionalism. He was having an argument with a friend about conventions of representation in landscape painting. The friend was trying to persuade him to paint grass as Poussin did, in the honeyed tones of…

[From The Gilroy Dispatch] Telepresence could unite world at expo Sep 22, 2010 By Martin Cheek At the Shanghai World Expo this month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the Bay Area’s bid to make Moffett Field the site of the 2020 World Expo. If we do get the go-ahead to put on this massive fair showcasing science, technology and industry, I say let’s do it Silicon Valley style. Let’s connect the world using the telepresence technology developed at the very location where the Silicon Valley World Expo might take place in a decade. NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field does…

[From Broadcasting & Cable] Beyond the Hologram New virtual technologies and enhanced displays are only the start of CNN’s midterm election coverage By George Winslow — Broadcasting & Cable, 9/20/2010 It’s odd to think of hologram technology as old-school, but for its midterm 2010 election coverage, CNN probably won’t be bringing back those images that seemed so dramatic during the last presidential election. Instead, the cable news network is looking to stay ahead of the news pack with a number of virtual-technology advances. “I think we were way ahead in 2006 and 2008 with our display technology and the Magic…