MIT brings more magic to augmented and virtual reality with 'Interactive Dynamic Video' and other top stories.

• MIT brings more magic to augmented and virtual reality with 'Interactive Dynamic Video'

  

  BII This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. A new imaging technique developed by researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has the potential to dramatically improve augmented- and virtual-reality (AR/VR). The technique, called “Interactive Dynamic Video” (IDV), allows real-world objects to be virtualized and manipulated on a digital interface. This innovation has ..

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• NASA: Cosmic Display Of Shooting Stars Light Up Night Sky On August 11-12

  

  (NASA) – Make plans now to stay up late or set the alarm early next week to see a cosmic display of “shooting stars” light up the night sky. Known for it's fast and bright meteors, the annual Perseid meteor shower is anticipated to be one of the best ...

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• Dinosaur arthritis joins baseball, boardwalks as another New Jersey first

  

  A dinosaur that roamed what's now New Jersey about 70 million years ago is believed to have suffered from a crippling form of arthritis. The first dinosaur discovered to have arthritis lived in what's now New Jersey, according to a report.NJ DEP  Likely a duck-billed dinosaur, or hadrosaur, it's the first-known dinosaur to suffer from septic arthritis, LATimes.com said.  The news was first reported by Royal Society Open Science.  Scientists came to the conclusion after analyzing two forearm bo..

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• Gene mutation helped early humans cope with smoke infested caves, but not Neanderthals

  

  Credit: PixabayPennsylvania State University researchers claim they’ve uncovered a gene that helps humans cope with the toxicity of smoke. This gene wasn’t found in specimens belonging to Neanderthals or Denisovans, two other hominin species which were contemporary with homo sapiens for thousands of years before becoming extinct.A smokey edgeThe researchers posit that this mutation must have given humans an evolutionary edge against the two other species. Some 50,000 years ago, humans, Neanderth..

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• First Evidence of Sleep in Flight

  

  For the first time, researchers have discovered that birds can sleep in flight. Together with an international team of colleagues, Niels Rattenborg from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen measured the brain activity of frigatebirds and found that they sleep in flight with either one cerebral hemisphere at a time or both hemispheres simultaneously. Despite being able to engage in all types of sleep in flight, the birds slept less than an hour a day, a mere fraction of the time ..

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