Arquivos de Tag: Virtual

Thirteen Curious Eko AI Agents Transformed a Virtual Island into Their Own Playground of Discovery

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory placed thirteen independent copies of an AI agent named Eko on a small simulated desert island and left them there for thirty hours apiece with no assigned task, no score to chase, and no reward waiting at the end. Each Eko ran on Claude Opus 4.7 […]

Mountless Aerial HMDs Seat You in a Floating Virtual World Without a Headset

Spending a full day inside a virtual world sounds simple until the hardware starts pressing on your face. Associate Professor Shogo Fukushima at Kyushu University heard that complaint from a student who wanted longer sessions and kept running into the weight of a headset on the head and neck. Fukushima already knew the feeling. Some […]

VMware Ready to Run CDs Packed Working Linux Virtual Machines Onto Discs Handed Out at Linux World 2000

Viewer David from Virginia Beach mailed Michael MJD a pair of forgotten promotional CDs he picked up at Linux World 2000, and those discs still hold complete, ready-to-boot virtual machines of Red Hat Linux 6.1 and SuSE Linux. VMware handed them out as marketing pieces that let Windows users try popular Linux distributions without hunting […]