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Visual engagement and comfort perceptions in pediatric patient rooms: A virtual reality and eye-tracking study using photographic stimuli

Understanding how pediatric patient room design influences comfort and care perceptions is critical for improving healthcare environments. This study examines the visual engagement and subjective ...

Phone-based system promises better avatar movement without expensive VR gear

VR Headset Unsplash . Researchers have developed a new system that uses smartphones instead of specialized motion-tracking hardware to create more realistic avatar movement in vir ...
Road to VR

‘Evangelion’ VR Game Will Primarily Use Hand-tracking, Increasing Ease-of-use at Cost of Interaction Fidelity

At the Neon Genesis Evangelion 30th Anniversary event in Tokyo this weekend, Pixelity showed off its upcoming XR game EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS, revealing it’s going all-in on hand-tracking. On ...
IEEE

Estimating Detection Thresholds for Desktop-Scale Hand Redirection in Virtual Reality

Abstract: Virtual reality (VR) interaction techniques like haptic retargeting offset the user's rendered virtual hand from the real hand location to redirect the user's physical hand movement. This ...
La Crosse Tribune

Student beats cancer, uses La Crosse virtual academy to stay on track

When Luke Willenbring was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a tumor of nerve tissue that develops in youth, he had to undergo months of treatment at Emplify by Gundersen in La Crosse and American Family ...
techxplore

Robot hand approaches human-like dexterity with new visual-tactile training

Human hands are a wonder of nature and unmatched in the animal kingdom. They can twist caps, flick switches, handle tiny objects with ease, and perform thousands of tasks every day. Robot hands ...
The Saratogian

SNAPSHOT: High school students try their hand driving virtual tractor trailers

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL: Greenwich sinks Stillwater in Section 2 Class C championship; Warriors unable to capture back-to-back sectional titles HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Greenwich sinks ...
Frontiers

Uncovering the mechanisms of virtual reality (VR)-enhanced neuroscience education: the role of eye tracking and facial expression recognition

Virtual reality (VR) has demonstrated substantial advantages in neuroscience education, consistently outperforming traditional instructional approaches in enhancing spatial understanding, knowledge ...
IEEE

Tracking Fast by Learning from Slow: An Event-based Hand Tracker Leveraging Knowledge in RGB Domain

Abstract: Event cameras offer micro-second temporal resolution and thus excel in fast-hand-tracking scenarios where conventional RGB cameras suffer from motion-blur artifacts. However, the scarcity of ...