Tag: virtual reality

  • Nation & World

    Forget the sedatives, I’ll take some VR

    Study of hand-surgery patients suggests “immersive experience” can curb need for drugs, cut hospital stay.

    4 minutes
    Surgery
  • Nation & World

    Single metalens focuses all colors of the rainbow in one point

    Harvard researchers have created the next generation of flat lenses, developing a “metalens” that can focus all the colors of the spectrum at the same time. The new design opens up the field for wearable optic devices. 

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Worlds of promise

    The future of visual and augmented reality was the theme of a HUBweek event that attracted students, scientists, educators, entrepreneurs, and software developers for an afternoon of demonstrations and discussions.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A thinner, flatter lens

    A new meta-lens works in the visible spectrum, seeing smaller than a wavelength of light. Because of this development, high-efficiency, ultra-flat, or planar, lenses could replace heavy, bulky ones in smart phones, cameras, and telescopes.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making sense of memory

    It happens to all of us: We think we learned of the Sept. 11 attacks from a radio report, when, in fact, the news came from a co-worker; we’re sure the robber running from the bank was tall, when actually he was short; we remember waking up at 7 yesterday, when 8 is closer to…

    3 minutes