EU – Higher education services talks at WTO to get push as global trade talks start last stage
April 1st, 2008
By Monica Dobie
European university scientists have designed a virtual reality system that allows users to visit and walk around a digitised environment, helping the tourist, town planning, architectural and medical sectors. As a test, their 'CyberCarpet' system has allowed users to visit the Roman Empire Italian town of Pompeii and experience it before it was decimated by Vesuvius in 79AD.
Universities involved in this Star Trek-style 'holodeck' programme are ETHZ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, MPS Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the ...
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