Heading from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina, the plane experienced a bird strike just 3 minutes after take off which took out both the engines. Let’s face it, we all have daydreamed of sitting in a cockpit and roaming the wild, blue yonder. MORE

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A recent study in North Carolina again supported the general positive achievement outcomes for TWI for different groups of students. Not surprisingly, other states than North Carolina are looking to these and similar programs to support the achievement of all students. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. There is little doubt that knowing more than one language carries tremendous advantages. MORE

Virtual Reality is in the press for Games, Demos, and VR movies. However, there are many more potential applications of VR. The nonprofit group The Walk Again Project (WAP) have successfully applied VR to help Paraplegics regain some level of control. According to a study published Aug. MORE

Here’s another varifocal prototype, this one created in collaboration with researchers at the University of North Carolina, the Max Planck Institute, and Saarland University. In Part 1 of this article we explored the current state of CGI, game, and contemporary VR systems. MORE

From a much greater, space-bound vantage point, you can also get a chance to see the ominous dark spot meander across North America in a way otherwise impractical outside of VR. MORE

The second demonstration, Membrane VR, a collaboration between University of North Carolina, NVIDIA, Saarland University, and the Max-Planck Institutes, uses a deformable membrane mirror for each eye that, in a commercial system, could be adjusted based on where a gaze tracker detects a user is looking. Current VR headsets can certainly make you believe you’re in a virtual world, but consumer devices can’t yet reproduce the exact way your eyes see the real world. MORE

Boss Key Productions, the North Carolina-based developer behind the unfortunately ill-received first-person shooters LawBreakers (2017) and Radical Heights (2018) , is out of business. MORE

At Duke University in North Carolina, 8 paralyzed people have regained some use of their limbs thanks to brain-controlled robotic system training. MORE

There was no modulation of brain activity,” Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, the lead researcher from Duke University in North Carolina, said in a Scientific Reports call on Aug. MORE

Research studies conducted by North Carolina State University show “significant improvement” in children’s (sixth to eighth grade) learning after using zSpace’s VR platform. #2 In March 2014 Facebook bought Oculus and the current wave of interest in VR and AR was reborn. MORE

UNC Health Care – Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In a rare step likely forced by the iPhone-slowing battery debacle , Apple today offered a public “preview” of the spring release of iOS 11.3 , including a new battery health monitor and other features. Notably, the battery health functionality will come in “a later iOS 11.3 beta release” rather than the initial beta, which is scheduled to be released today. MORE

At time, when wearable technology remains the talk of the town, researchers from the North Carolina State University or NCSU have come up with a stunning new wearable prototype which uses body heat to generate electricity. The technology developed by NCSU researchers is highly comfortable, truly lightweight and way too productive when compared to existing thermoelectric generators. MORE

Ham, an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the North Carolina State College of Design, told me he’d been interested in telling a Civil Rights story when he discovered Oculus’ Launch Pad program, which funded the piece last year. MORE

A new study carried out by the researchers at Duke University, North Carolina, the United States, claims that Paraplegic Patients have experienced partial recovery in terms of regaining some sort of sensation and muscle control with the assistance of a robotic exoskeleton and virtual reality. MORE

Ubisoft recently released Eagle Flight exclusively on Oculus Rift from their Montreal studio, with Werewolves Within and Star Trek: Bridge Crew to follow from their North Carolina-based subsidiary Red Storm Entertainment. MORE