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Jun. 3, 2021 , 12:43 PM
A beam of ethereal blue laser light enters a specialized crystal. There it turns red, a sign that each photon has split into a pair with lower energies and a mysterious connection. The particles are now quantum mechanically “entangled,” linked like identical twins who know each other’s thoughts despite living in distant cities. The photons zip through a tangle of fibers, then ever so gently deposit the information they encode into waiting clouds of atoms.
The transmogrifications are “a little bit like magic,” exults Eden Figueroa, a physicist at Stony Brook University. He and colleagues have concocted the setup on a few laboratory benches cluttered with lenses and mirrors. But they have a much bigger canvas in mind.
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IMAGE: With Army funding, Kent State University creates an immersive virtual reality lab that can be used in tandem with other biophysiological technologies to advance an interdisciplinary understanding of group dynamics. view more
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. Immersive virtual reality isn t just for amusement parks, the U.S. Army is funding research that uses it to understand group dynamics.
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory funded scientists at Kent State University s Electrophysiological Neuroscience Laboratory to create an immersive virtual reality lab that can be used in tandem with their other biophysiological technologies to advance an interdisciplinary understanding of group dynamics.