according to Ronald Azuma, Research at Nokia Research Centre, an AR user could see the real world and computer-generated images projected on top of that world by wearing translucent goggles (Azuma, 1997). Virtual Reality verses Augmented Reality: Most of the people may be confused with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), a concept very similar to Augmented Reality. Here is the main difference between AR and VR. VR is a totally artificial environment that created by computers that
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are many virtual communities like Hyves, Facebook, MySpace, etc. that were especially built up for social interaction. They count millions of members and have become indispensable for many people. Their influence has become so great that they are even used for significant matters like the job search. In the following we will present you how Social Media helps you finding a job without having even to move away from your comfortable couch. We will look at the social networks YouTube, Virtual Job Fair
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and are changing to big virtual community spaces where members interact with their friends and their acquaintances without any cultural or geographical boundary. Nowadays, virtual communities or social networking sites have become a part of our day to day life. However, they affect people’s relationships and may enhance or damage their real life experience. The relationships are focused on friendships and love romantic relationships. It is interesting to analyse how virtual communities and social
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Effect of Virtual Worlds Virtual Worlds have become a trend and it affects the people in several ways. They become less social, they hide behind their fake characters and waste their money on virtual items. Being attached to unreal life is making people relay on being unknown and instead of living the real world, they tend to make the Internet an essential element in their life. Staying unhidden makes people unsocial; they lie, cheat and live an unrealistic life. They start to make the virtual world
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Ocular Technology Today we will be discussing Ocular Technology with our main focus being on the new Oculus Rift. The Oculus Rift is being developed as a 3-D (three dimensional) virtual reality headset for gaming. This new technology is leading edge because of its interfacing and head tracking at six degrees of freedom with ultra low latency and new field of view range at 110 degrees diagonal 90 degrees horizontal with a top resolution of 1280 by 800 including multiple device inputs, multiple
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Memory Management Requirements Efficient memory management is vital in a multiprogramming system. Memory management is the process in which, the operating system subdivides the user part of the main memory to accommodate multiple ready to go processes. Having multiple processes available in the main memory will allow the processor to be used to its full potential instead of waiting idly for the input/output devices to complete their jobs. Listed below are the requirements that memory management
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that uses software to run multiple applications and operating systems on one or more physical host servers all at the same time. Within the host server is comprised virtual computers known as VM (Virtual Machines) are running the operating systems and applications similar to a physical PC. VM are setup as virtual servers and virtual desktops. Below is an example how a virtualization server operates. Example of Virtualization Server One of the benefits of virtualization is consolidation
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Introduction Full immersion virtual reality is much closer than some think about. This type of technology could open up more opportunities than we once thought. Think about a world where all of your office buildings, entire corporation’s where people telecommute using virtual reality. Getting rid of the overhead of having office buildings and trimming down the number of people that would have to commute every day to the corporate office. Full immersion call centers, video games and vacations.
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Augmented Reality: Linking real and virtual worlds A new paradigm for interacting with computers Wendy E. Mackay Department of Computer Science Université de Paris-Sud ORSAY-CEDEX, FRANCE E-mail: mackay@lri.fr ABSTRACT A revolution in computer interface design is changing the way we think about computers. Rather than typing on a keyboard and watching a television monitor, Augmented Reality lets people use familiar, everyday objects in ordinary ways. The difference is that these objects
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TECHNOLOGY 5750504 Natchuda A.. 5750519 Sasipat T. Augmented Reality Vs. Virtual Reality System augments the real world scene User maintains a sense of presence in real world Needs a mechanism to combine virtual and real worlds Totally immersive environment Senses are under control of system Need a mechanism to feed virtual world to user Application Areas Today’s virtual and augmented reality systems are typically implemented in one of three ways:
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