时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2015年(十二月)


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Virtual Reality Applications in Medicine, Security on Horizon 科学家们将虚拟现实技术应用到医学上


For now, virtual reality is still mostly associated with video games. But computer chips that process video images are getting better and better at fooling our minds, and they could soon be able to convince us we are someplace we are not.


Scientists at a University of Maryland computer lab called the Augmentarium, together with physicians from the university’s Shock Trauma 1 Center, are mixing virtual reality with the real world to create something called "augmented 2 reality." The technology could have applications in such fields as military combat, medicine and public safety.


For instance, soldiers wearing special goggles 3 while on the battlefield could be able to see critical data without averting 4 their eyes from the scene. Or, surgeons in an operating room could take a whole new approach to their work.


“Right now," said Dr. Sarah Murthi, a trauma surgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, "I put a probe on you and I have to look at the screen over here, and the patient monitors may be up here, and I’m not really looking at the patient. You can imagine, if I were wearing these glasses and I put the probe on the patient, now I can look directly at you. We are still talking, and now I can still look at your heart. So it makes it much more immediate 5.”


Fusing images from multiple surveillance cameras into a virtual reality could also help security officers more effectively monitor different areas.


“Public safety officials will be able to transport themselves virtually from one part of the campus to another part and respond to emergency situations,” said Amitabh Varshney, a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.


Researchers admit that virtual reality headsets are still bulky, but they point out that early smartphones were also large, had a short battery life and no touch interfaces 6.


“Today, as the smartphones have gotten smaller, they are more portable. The whole field of social media engagement has emerged out of the smartphones," Varshney said. "And we believe something similar is going to happen with virtual augmented reality headsets.”


Scientists say that with sufficient funding, this innovative 7 technology could be available in three to five years.



n.外伤,精神创伤
  • Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
  • The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
n.护目镜
  • Skiers wear goggles to protect their eyes from the sun.滑雪者都戴上护目镜使眼睛不受阳光伤害。
  • My swimming goggles keep steaming up so I can't see.我的护目镜一直有水雾,所以我看不见。
防止,避免( avert的现在分词 ); 转移
  • The margin of time for averting crisis was melting away. 可以用来消弥这一危机的些许时光正在逝去。
  • These results underscore the value of rescue medications in averting psychotic relapse. 这些结果显示了救护性治疗对避免精神病复发的价值。
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
界面( interface的名词复数 ); 接口(连接两装置的电路,可使数据从一种代码转换成另一种代码); 交界; 联系
  • If the class needs to be reprogrammed, new interfaces are created. 如果class需要重新程序设计,新的interfaces创建。
  • Interfaces solve this problem of evolving code. Interfaces解决了代码升级的问题。
adj.革新的,新颖的,富有革新精神的
  • Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
  • He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。
学英语单词
a bee mite
a fat lip
adaptive man-machine nonarithmetic information processing
anticold
arianist
artificial intraocular lens
auditory information
authentic surveyer
axle tilt
big-bath accounting
bond investment account
book
Bourget, Aéroport de Le
broad ocean
burst into laughter
cespi
chilidium
cochain complexes
Codeinism
Condong-kecil, Sungai
consummations
contemporaneities
corps
cuntwardly
database key
deckle frame
deducible
dirty weekend
domestic storage financing
Ebringen
electrooptic(al) modulator
emission vacuum spectrometer
Epipactis mairei
erythroblastotic
estate at sufferance
esthesioneure
evidence-based-practice
fission yield characteristic
flitted
furanilide
generally accepted accounting practice
Gestalgar
gingival curvature
great grey owls
ground duty
guilts
hacking into
hatch boat
hazelgrove
Hsp72
iconizing
involument
isotrihydroxycholine
jig concentrate
jury instructions
keen price
Kocher's symptom
koco
ligialty
Londonderry District
lowfield
maintenance free operation
Messinese
mixed coal
monometer
N-noramepavine
objicient
offensive play
oilway
onioned
osmeterium
palloid gear
Phenethiurn
phosphate absorption coefficient
piano player
picture reproducer
preliminary interview
psychrometres
retriangulated
right-and-left-hand chart
rotary broom-slat sweeper
rotating dipole method
row-by-row system
savoy alps
saxhorn contrebasse
Shihan
simultaneous variables
sixth
squaring up machine
stepped diameter auger
stoneware clay
technical magnetization
train control line
trigeminal cough
trimonthlies
ulti
vietti
vSphere Replication
Vǔlchidol
well-given
yarn reinforced elastomer
zygosporangium