Tag: VIRTUAL

Google's Art Project may allow you to visit London's National Gallery and Florence's Uffizi Gallery, but if you want to gaze at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel from your living room, you'll have to head to the Vatican's website. There, you'll be able to spend your whole afternoon staring at Michelangelo's masterpiece, rendered in a beautiful, high-resolution panorama. Your virtual visit will ...

Everyone wants a new SUV. But who wants to waste all that time and energy actually test driving one -- especially if it means having to spend time away from your computer? Well, if you happen to be interested in buying one of Mitsubishi's new Outlander Sport SUVs, you may never have to. Beginning November 1st, customers interested in taking the new Outlander for a spin will be able to do so ...

The devoted Switched readers and design nuts among you will remember that we covered Belgian studio Unfold's ceramic 3-D printer back in February. Now, Unfold has teamed up with interaction designer Tim Knapen to create 'L'artisan Electronique,' a sort of virtual potter's wheel. Using Unfold's 3-D printer, which converts ceramic powder into solid forms with a coiling technique (that has its ...

Augmented reality technology has really caught fire this year, touching upon everything from movie promotions to sharpshooting games to John Mayer videos. So what's the next augmented frontier? In the immortal words of Mars Blackmon, "it's gotta be the shoes." At least that's what Adidas thinks. The company, according to Wired, is gearing up to launch a new augmented reality sneaker that ...

Online virtual worlds are taking over. It would seem as though World of Warcraft and Second Life are cultish phenomena inhabited primarily by the uber-dorky, but if mainstream television is an indicator, things are changing. Recently, 'South Park' aired an episode in which much of the animation was modified in-game footage from World of Warcraft, while 'The Simpsons' parodied the virtual world ...

Brazilian authorities have arrested four men in Sao Paulo after the gang kidnapped a man and held him at gunpoint for his password to a video game account. The victim is reportedly one of the world's top players of 'GunBound,' an appropriately named role-playing game, which is incredibly popular in Brazil. In the game, the better you perform in battle, the more skills and experience you earn, ...

Even virtual online worlds such as 'Second Life' have their seedy underbellies. While undercover in the massive digital playground, a German news program reports that it was invited to pay to attend meetings in which members view and trade real child pornography and have sex with the avatars of underage members (or the "virtual child" avatars of adult members pretending to be underage). This news ...