Technology detaches people from time and space puts different contextual structures before them. First caused by traditional media, this rupture prevails in virtuality, resulting a paradigm shift self. Virtual space, like the physical world, witnesses collective production. In other words, contrary to popular belief, virtual has connection with reality allows subject reproduce herself. However,...

background: the i-space is a radiological imaging system in which computed tomography (ct)-scans can be evaluated as a three dimensional hologram. the aim of this study is to analyze the value of virtual reality (i-space) in diagnosing acute occult scaphoid fractures.   methods: a convenient cohort of 24 patients with a ct-scan from prior studies, without a scaphoid fracture on radiograph, yet ...

Opportunities of potential human activities have extended from physical space to virtual space in today’s society. Based on a proposed conceptual framework that models the relationships between physical and virtual spaces, this paper presents an attempt to adjust the space-time prism concept of Hagerstrand’s time geography to identify potential activity opportunities in virtual space, focusing ...

Virtual geographic environments (VGE) are environments pertaining to the relationship between post-humans and 3-D virtual worlds. Post-humans are defined as a combination of humans in the real world with 3-D avatars in 3-D virtual worlds. Five types of space, namely Internet space, data space, 3-D graphical space, personal perceptual and cognitive space, and social space are used to explore the...