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From Wired SAN DIEGO -- While the real Iraq is more than enough for most people to handle, there's a virtual Iraq lurking on the laptop of psychologist Skip Rizzo, a research scientist at the University of Southern California. With a push of a button, special effects will appear -- a mosque's call to prayer, a sandstorm, the sounds of bullets or bombs. "We can put a person in a VR headset and have them walk down the streets of Baghdad," Rizzo said. "They can ride in a Humvee, fly in a helicopter over a battle scene or drive on a desert road." This is no video game, nor is it a...

FROM THE PRESENCE-L LISTSERV: From The East Valley (Arizona) Tribune Tempe company has vision of future By Ed Taylor, Tribune Vincent F. Sollitto Jr. can’t be accused of lacking vision. The president and chief executive officer of Brillian Corp., a Tempe- based developer of high-definition televisions, sees a world in which millions of kids will play video games with sleek headsets...

Though the Scentstories player doesn't actually play music, it teams with Scentstories disc themes to work much like a music CD player. Just insert one of the themed discs and push play....

FROM THE PRESENCE-L LISTSERV: From InformIT.com Haptics: The Technology of Simulating Human Touch Date: Jan 14, 2005 By Laurie Rowell. When haptics research — that is, the technology...

Experience Design And the Design of Experience by Erik Davis This piece appeard in Arcadia: Writings on Theology and Technology (Australia, 2001) There is no creation ex nihilo. We...