Rendering the Digital Self

CCTV-America featured research by Ari Shapiro and Andrew Feng to create user-like avatars. Shapiro and his colleagues’ Rapid Avatar Generator work reproduces a digital version of the user within minutes and at a fraction of the cost of existing technology....

How will virtual reality change our lives?

The BBC turned to ICT experts Mark Bolas and Skip Rizzo for a feature on the future of virtual reality. Listen to the interviews here. Read them here. Mark Bolas: “I’m worried by our current computer interfaces. I watch people walking around like zombies...

New video game trains response to foreign disasters

An article on the Army homepage features DisasterSim, the ICT developed video game that trains soldiers in how to respond to foreign natural disasters. The article notes that the game can be downloaded for free from the Army’s Milgaming web site...