Vibrating pads on people's arms can support a more convincing illusion of weight in virtual reality by fooling the brain into ignoring certain sensory input.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 13, 2022
Researchers have developed the AirRacket, a virtual reality controller that emits bursts of compressed air to simulate a ball's impact in racket sports.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 13, 2022
An artificial intelligence-trained computer learned to play football from scratch, using digital players.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2021
Researchers at U.K. startup Kagenova have developed a system that can reduce nausea or cybersickness induced by virtual reality.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 18, 2021
Artificial intelligence has achieved record high scores on videogames played on classic Atari consoles, by recalling previous successes.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2021
Amazon researcher Aleksander Kubica won the world's first quantum chess tournament during the virtual Practical Quantum Computing (Q2B) conference.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 30, 2020
Researchers at India's International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) have developed artificial intelligence that tweaks video footage in real time to...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 17, 2020
Researchers have created a more complex version of the ancient Chinese board game Go using quantum entanglement.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2020
A machine learning system taught itself the basics of video game design by watching videos of people playing games.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 30, 2018
Improbotics is an artificial intelligence-based comedy theater that includes a human, a puppet, and a cyborg.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 20, 2018
Researchers have taught a machine learning neural network algorithm to render two-dimensional video clips posted on YouTube as three-dimensional images.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 13, 2018
A new algorithm plays Atari games and advances within them either by baiting an enemy to kill itself, or by exploiting bugs that allow the algorithm to cheat.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 12, 2018
Researchers have been developing a tool that can take a single image of a face and create an animated version that puts on either a happy, sad, or angry expression...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 10, 2017
Researchers have modified a generative adversarial network to create an artificial intelligence program that produces images in unconventional styles.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 5, 2017
Researchers trained an artificial intelligence system to play Nintendo's "Super Smash Bros. Melee" using deep-learning algorithms, and then challenged and defeated...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 27, 2017
New studies explore why women experience more motion sickness than men while using virtual reality.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 19, 2016
Self-driving cars can learn the rules of the road by studying virtual traffic on videogames such as Grand Theft Auto V, according to a new study.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 1, 2016
Autobahn is an artificial intelligence system that can use Google Street View images to optimize a driving route for a particular type of scenery. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 27, 2016