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3-D Wall of Virtual Reality (04:02) VR has come a long way in the past decade and developers are constantly working on new ways to enhance VR user experiences. Gone are heavy headsets and chunky sluggish graphics – now, step inside a fully immersive VR chamber that has about 100 times the resolution of traditional virtual reality.
Meet the Avatars (57:29) Imagine you could make a copy of a loved one. A digital clone with a life of its own — their avatar. That’s the dream of biomechanical engineer Dr. Jordan Nguyen, and he says we have the technology to do it right now in the form of virtual reality. VR might be thought of as a way to play games, but as Nguyen discovers, it’s so much more. VR is being used to face phobias, to combat trauma, and—in the case of one Newcastle man—to help reverse the effects of a catastrophic spinal injury.
TEDTalks: Jessica Ochoa Hendrix—How Virtual Reality Turns Students into Scientists (06:35) Using low-cost virtual reality, education activist Jessica Ochoa Hendrix helps bring science to life in schools across the US. In this quick talk, she explains how a VR experience she developed invites students to explore underwater ecosystems as if they're marine biologists -- and envision themselves in other careers they might not have otherwise imagined.