You could easily go to a rock gym to try climbing or throw on a pair of boots and hike a local trail, but you'd need to invest a little more time and planning to try caving. You could commit to ...

With the introduction of an innovative new virtual reality tour at the Marble Arch Caves in County Fermanagh, it is now possible for everyone to explore the beautiful subterranean world of this UNESCO ...

In 1992 another technology called CAVE (CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment) was unveiled at the University of Illinois at Chicago. CAVEs use rear-projected screens to create an enclosure within which ...

Cave diving isn’t something you casually do — okay, you could, but we’d recommend against it. In fact the National Speleological Society, the U.S. caving association, strongly encourages cavers not to ...

Tucson, Ariz.- Raytheon Missile Systems received the 2014 Excellence in Innovation award from the Arizona Manufacturers Council for its innovative use of virtual reality in missile design. Raytheon’s ...

The CAVE combines high-resolution, stereoscopic projection and 3-D computer graphics to create a complete sense of presence in a virtual environment, with projections covering three walls and the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a defense technology journalist, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A multi-segmented robot at the DARPA Urban Challenge in ...

Dunbar Cave State Park is getting ready to launch a virtual reality project that will enable visitors to tour the cave even when they can't physically be onsite. Earlier this month, officials were in ...

Researchers at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego are commemorating the second year of the Suncave. Jürgen Schulze is the computer scientist at Qualcomm who developed the software for this project ...

Inside the Future Reality Lab at New York University, there is a cart with 50 headsets on it. It sits by a 10-by-10-foot square that's sometimes used as a motion-capture stage for the lab's offshoot ...

In the movie theater we look through passive 3D glasses to give us depth perception or stereopsis. The 3D effect helps to immerse us in the experience that the director intends for us to sense and ...