Simulator 'conquers quake stress'
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Earthquake simulators can reduce post-traumatic stress in people who have survived the real thing, a study suggests.
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Explosions. Storms. Waves. CGI ace Jos Stam is creating a physics machine that can make special effects look absolutely, completely real.
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They practice emergency scenarios using Ground Truth, a real-time strategy game.
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RAMAT GAN, Israel  - A new system is using virtual  reality scenes of surfing and jogging to help physiotherapy  patients improve their balance and, for some, even to learn to  walk again.
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Just over a year ago, Joe Barlow, a paramedic in Illinois, spent a week testing a computer game called Incident Commander, a training simulator that gives players a lead role in managing crisis situations such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
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The Pentagon is using two 256-processor Linux Networx Evolocity cluster supercomputers to conduct various disaster simulations.
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Experts are to study the "sweaty palmed excitement" of people playing their computer and console games.
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A virtual reality hand, complete with vital veins, that "feels" could help trainee nurses practice their jabs.
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According to the Associated Press, Sony Computer said it disagreed with the verdict and promised to appeal. Immersion has patents on the &quot;vibro-tactile&quot; technologies that can send vibrations
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The Sims 2 adds DNA into the mix and much more realistic 3D graphics, which gives the game an eerie feeling of reality.
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Virtual Iraq is a simulation created to treat Iraq war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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With 20 percent of the world's nuclear reactors in seismically active zones and the remote but real possibility of earthquakes just about everywhere else, nuclear power plants are designed with shaking in mind.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health use a video game to help determine the link between the hippocampus and depression. In Game|Life.
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A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency's findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight.
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The emerging science of infrasound may help track -- or even predict -- earthquakes and other disasters. By John Geirland from Wired magazine.
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CHENNAI, India  - A 1-week yoga program reduced stress and anxiety among survivors of the tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean islands of Andaman and Nicobar in December 2004, researchers from India report.
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RAMAT GAN, Israel  - A new system is using virtual reality scenes of surfing and jogging to help physiotherapy patients improve their balance and, for some, even to learn to walk again.