Researchers use virtual reality to reduce anxiety about death

Texas A&M University researchers have found that a brief virtual reality (VR) simulation of a near-death experience can ...
Aviation Week

Virtual Reality Simulator Provides Realistic Training Scenarios, Part 3

Loft Dynamics’ immersive Virtual Reality Flight Training Simulator devices are one-twentieth the cost and one-tenth the size of traditional full-motion simulators. Credit: Meg Ellery The Loft Flight ...
The Durango Herald

Police academy in Mancos unveils new virtual reality training simulator

MANCOS – Visualize a police officer responding to call of a man acting in a menacing manner in a nice tree-lined neighborhood with manicured lawns and boxy two-story homes. When Sgt. Angelo Martinez ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Virtual reality training simulator adopted by Rogers Police Department

ROGERS -- New virtual reality technology at the Rogers Police Department is providing enhanced scenario-based training in de-escalation and crisis intervention that could save lives. The department is ...
New York Post

You can now experience how death feels through virtual reality

This new art exhibit is to die for. An Australian artist is bringing the experience of death to life via a participatory virtual reality simulator, showing people what it could be like like as you’re ...
Flying

Mixed Reality Simulation Offers New Training Options for Current, Future Pilots

Redbird Flight Simulations unveiled a new mixed reality flight simulator at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, blending virtual and augmented reality. The simulator, launching later this year, offers a ...
WTVM

MILITARY MATTERS: Virtual Reality Parachute Simulator Opens at National Infantry Museum

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - Would you like to know what it feels like to jump out of a military airplane? A premier soldier center in the Chattahoochee Valley is giving you that chance. Up and down, in mid ...
WRBL

Virtual reality parachuting simulator open to public at National Infantry Museum

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) – Thrill seekers in the Columbus, Georgia area can look forward to a new virtual reality parachuting simulator, Paradrop VR, at The National Infantry Museum, located at 1775 ...

Bird researchers use virtual reality to bring fieldwork experience to classroom

A flutter of blue and yellow darts through a field in late May. Trees, shrubs and summer flowers fill the landscape. A ...
Inverse

Is reality a simulation?

Physicists have long struggled to explain why the universe started with conditions suitable for life to evolve. Why do the physical laws and constants take the very specific values that allow stars, ...
Aviation Week

Virtual Reality Simulator Provides Realistic Training Scenarios, Part 2

LAPD helicopters are equipped with forward looking infrared sensors, a camera system, a spot light and a data link system capable of streaming video to command and control centers. Credit: Los Angeles ...