Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

TriO was designed by a team at UMaine's Immersive Mathematics in Rendered Environments (IMRE) Lab with the goal of offering K-12 teachers and students new ways to delve into familiar mathematical ...

Teleworking, telecottaging, telecommuting – virtual working. The world of remote working has adopted some exotic appellations over the 30 years and, in truth, for a very long time, the concept of ...

As remote work continues to shape the modern business landscape, companies need to adapt. Many are being forced, maybe for the first time, to cultivate a company culture that exists either entirely or ...

If you’ve been working with computers for a while, the acronym “DMTF” should be a familiar one to you. But if you still think of it as “Desktop Management Task Force,” then you probably aren’t aware ...

Researchers have developed new software to aid in the development, evaluation and demonstration of safer autonomous, or driverless, vehicles. Called the Vehicle-in-Virtual-Environment (VVE) method, it ...

Clinicians can help patients recover from strokes while they’re anywhere in the world—even states or countries far away from each other—by using a combination of robotics and virtual-reality devices.

As Molly Hamill explains the origin of the Declaration of Independence to her students, she dons a white wig fashioned into a ponytail, appearing as John Adams, before sporting a bald cap in homage to ...

The first time I used virtual reality (VR), I was struck by how completely it cut my senses off from my surroundings. By the time I took the headset off, I had lost track of where I was standing in ...