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Neurosurgeons Practice on Virtual Simulator before Removing Brain Tumor

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Virtual simulators reach a medical milestone as warm-up for a real-life operation

This simulator goes far beyond the olden days of the board game "Operation." Last month, for the first time, neurosurgeons rehearsed on a 3-D model of a patient's brain just…
This simulator goes far beyond the olden days of the board game "Operation." Last month, for the first time, neurosurgeons rehearsed on a 3-D model of a patient's brain…

Video: Raytheon's Free Roaming Combat Simulator Lets You Feel Getting Shot

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A new combat simulator lets you toss real flash-bangs and feel the consequences of getting shot by virtual enemies

First-person-shooter video games have nothing on a new combat simulator by defense giant Raytheon. Fully rigged warfighters can roam freely in the real world and engage…
First-person-shooter video games have nothing on a new combat simulator by defense giant Raytheon. Fully rigged warfighters can roam freely in the real world and engage…

Spanish Military Tests Swarm Intelligence on Video Game Battlefield

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The Spanish army is using ant colony algorithms to plot the best paths through future battlefields

Moving through real-life battlefields inevitably proves trickier than playing a game of Minesweeper, but Spanish researchers and army officers have converted the video game…
Moving through real-life battlefields inevitably proves trickier than playing a game of Minesweeper, but Spanish researchers and army officers have converted the video…

Video Game Teaches Cambodian Kids to Avoid Real Landmines

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Warning: this game may have beneficial real-life consequences

Cambodian children grow up in a nation where millions of landmines left by decades of civil war have continued to cripple and kill hundreds of people each year. Now they…
Cambodian children grow up in a nation where millions of landmines left by decades of civil war have continued to cripple and kill hundreds of people each year. Now they…

The DoD Wants to Train Soldiers in Immersive Video Games that Respond to EEG, Voice

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U.S. armed forces have been using video games to train troops for years, but the Office of the SecDef wants something way cooler than the combat simulators of yore. The OSD…
U.S. armed forces have been using video games to train troops for years, but the Office of the SecDef wants something way cooler than the combat simulators of yore. The…

Two Key Advances Bring Quantum Computers Closer to Reality Than Ever

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Researchers on two continents are reporting two big breakthroughs in quantum computing today — a quantum system built on the familiar von Neumann processor-memory…
Researchers on two continents are reporting two big breakthroughs in quantum computing today — a quantum system built on the familiar von Neumann processor-memory

Rec-Room Cockpit: How One Reader Built His Own Flight Simulator

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Clint Fishburne, a regional-airline pilot based in Atlanta, wanted to help his children develop the body movement and muscle memory necessary to fly and land a plane. With…
Clint Fishburne, a regional-airline pilot based in Atlanta, wanted to help his children develop the body movement and muscle memory necessary to fly and land a plane.

European Researchers Win $1.3 Billion To Simulate The Human Brain

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Europe just kickstarted the Human Brain Project with massive cash.

Henry Markram, whose simulated rat brain we have covered before, now wants to build a human brain simulator one neuron at a time. That might take a little while, since there…

NASA Finally Has Touchscreen Simulators For Spacecraft

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Astronaut Eric Boe

Reach out, touch space

Touchscreens make it to NASA…

Take A Look At This Goofy-Looking Battle Simulator

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Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator looks totally accurate in its alpha test

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is totally accurate looking, as long as you don't mind absurdly rag-dolly play-dough figures with googly eyes bounding toward each…




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