SensAble Technologies, a company providing devices used in medical simulation, has announced  a substantial upgrade to their already existing shoulder and knee arthroscopy simulator - insightArthroVR. The new version of the simulator was developed with GMV, a solution provider from Spain.
insightArthroVR is a training tool, teaching surgeons the essential skills of triangulation, camera orientation, and [...]

Inspired by a successful project carried out ten years ago (!) in Netherlands, on the Eindhoven University of Technology, the first UK virtual construction training center is set to open in Coventry in September 2009.
The ACT-UK Simulation Centre will enable construction managers to practice their people management skills and help them develop their potential. This [...]

An interesting attempt to spread the virtual reality to unconquered teritories.
Marcus Carter, a Welsh businessman, published in Second Life the first virtual market dedicated to farmers. He noticed that "nobody wants to drive for miles in a car or actually travel around calling at farm after farm, to meet the producers. However, consumers want local [...]

The Wired Campus reports about the project at the UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) aiming to explore the ancient Egyptian site of Karnak by using VR techniques.
Willeke Wenderish, an associate professor of Egyptian archaeology at the named University has actually used modeling and virtual simulation to learn, and now present and explain, how [...]

The first virtual recruitment fair was organized and held this week (April 22-24) in Italy. The manifestation was hosted by a local organization called BIP (Borsa Internationale del Placement, or International Placement Market), and attracted more than 85 companies, 70 universities and 15,000 candidates.

Seems too obvious, but in fact it was just like a real [...]