Thursday, December 07, 2006

Geovirtual reality for sharing information

location based services

Engineers and computer scientists at West Virginia University's GeoVirtual Laboratory (GVL) have developed what they called the VRGIS solution -- short for 'virtual reality geographic information systems.' The VRGIS project combines several technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), location based services (LBS), and geographic information systems (GIS) with 'the power of the Internet to provide people with a portal to dynamically share information in a revolutionary new way.'
For example, they've developed the augmented reality (AR) headset, a set of goggles which could be used by police officers to 'verify license information and do background checks against a variety of databases.' But don't worry, the GVL team also wants to offer these technologies to people like you and me.

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