This paper presents the “Remote Experiment Laboratories Using Virtual Reality”(VRLab) project. VRLab promotes the coordinated use of Virtual Reality technologies along with video streaming and remote control combined through a web interface in order to provide a new approach to multi-user remote experimentation for educational purposes. 2005 Mathematics Subject Classification: E-learning, Virtu...

In recent years there has been increased behavioral research in virtual reality and virtual worlds. While these experiments could offer substantial advantages to researchers, they might also pose risks. We begin by identifying key concepts in virtual experimental research. We next review the critical virtual reality component of virtual worlds. Finally, we offer guidance in conducting virtual w...

Baudrillard is one of postmodernist theorists that criticize the unreality of the culture which we live in. He suggests that human interactions with virtual reality media and unreal technologies, achieve nothing; He even fears that society will fall prey to these media subjectivity. The virtual reality media capability to produce simulated reality could mislead society into voluntary detachment...

In 1995 we have set up a virtual reality division of our Internet-based Image Library of Biological Macromolecules. This was one of the first virtual reality applications in biology. In this contribution we describe how virtual reality modeling can be applied to structural

We present the RhoVeR (Rhodes Virtual Reality) system and classify it as a second generation Parallel/Distributed Virtual Reality (DVR) system. We discuss the components of the system and thereby demonstrate its support for Virtual Reality application development, its conngurable, parallel and distributed nature, and its synthesis of rst generation DVR techniques.

Virtual environments are increasingly used for emergency training, but tend to focus mainly on teaching prescribed emergency procedures. However, social psychology literature highlights several factors that can bias individual response to an emergency in the real world, and would be worth considering in virtual training systems. In this paper, we focus on withdrawal of help due to racial discri...