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How Virtual Reality Can Make Your Building Smarter [Macworld / iWorld 2012]

(1:34 pm PDT, Jan 27th 2012)

SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD / iWORLD 2012 — Next time you’re nodding off at school or in the office because there’s too much C02 in the room, a sensor can open the window and wake you up.

This is just one of the cool functions that a group of uber-smart high school students and an affable professor have designed through virtual reality in Hawaii.

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iPhone 4 Game Blends Asteroids with Virtual Reality…on the Holodeck [Daily Freebie]

(10:14 am PDT, Apr 4th 2011)

iPhone 4 Game Blends Asteroids with Virtual Reality…on the Holodeck [Daily Freebie]

If you’re lucky enough to posses an iPhone 4 and haven’t already downloaded freebie Ball Pit, do it now and play around with it a little. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Pretty cool, right? For those of you at work or still saving for an iPhone 4, the game is basically a first-person shooter set in the middle of a what looks like a holodeck from the later Star Trek shows, with the objective of shooting down the spheres that happen to be floating around in the big room with you.

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