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Dutch researchers recently demonstrated a new type of wireless body area network, or BAN for short. A BAN essentially gives the human body its own IP address, and the new techniques demonstrated at IMEC based in Eindhoven incorporate a dongle that plugs into the SD card slot of a cellphone, enabling the streaming of data from the sensors to the cellphone in real time.

the known universe has now been modelled virtually. Now we can explore questions in virtual ways

Running games directly in the browser with no plugin. With unity support this could be a compelling way to deliver virtual worlds like virtual body. 

ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. It is fully featured, stable, mature and platform independent with an easy to use C/C++ API. It has advanced joint types and integrated collision detection with friction. ODE is useful for simulating vehicles, objects in virtual reality environments and virtual creatures.

very similar to virtual body and hap.  A project trying to build a virtual physiome. 

reaction grid. A virtual world platform for cross platform games. Use c# and javascript for any type of virtual world

Using this 3D body suit, they are able to shoot 3D motion capture right out of the lab. More details about this suit - known as MVN BIOMECH from Xsens, this 3D human kinematic, camera-less measurement system will come integrated with small tracking sensors that are placed on the joints. All the sensors on the suit will comprise of a trio of components: an accelerometer, magnetometers and a gyroscope, working in tandem to deliver information on each of the joints, body segments between the joints and the 3D movements. Currently, a project is being developed to see how nurses are able to lift patients safely into a hospital bed without having to strain themselves.

People who were told to "cut down" a sequoia redwood in a 3-D forest were less likely to waste paper later, says  Stanford University graduate student Sun Joo Ahn, whose doctoral dissertation outlines the findings. "We found that virtual reality can change how people behave."

tool to investigate virtual human bodies in a given environment

An excellent guide through a huge and complex 3d space. The kind of thing we'd like to do with a virtual body. 

An excellent piece highlighting the growing focus on the dangers of activity. A key reason why a virtual body is needed. 

Civilised living has transformed our bodies, from deep within our bones to the tips of our fingers

The first online 3-D interactive search tool of the human body was released today.  It allows a user to view and navigate the human anatomy, male or female, down to the finest detail-from the muscles and deep muscles to the nerves, arteries, vessels, and bones. This new tool, called BodyMaps, was developed by Healthline Networks, a company that provides medical information to consumers online, and GE Healthyimagination, a Web-based platform that shares and promotes projects that focus on consumer health, such as apps or healthy how-to videos.

excellent flashed based tool much like google body browser. 

Scientists and surgeons from France, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland have developed a "virtual liver", using EU research funding, which will help surgeons better plan and carry out tumour operations and ensure quicker patient recovery. Personally I just find it a shame that there is no open source repository where this work can be made available to the general public. There is definitely no way for the general public to get involved. 

Best example of a human body in the browser so far. Has animated elements. No plugins. Uses web 3d. REally easy to use. Very stable. 

Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say. Electrical engineer Todd Coleman at the University of California at San Diego is devising noninvasive means of controlling machines via the mind, techniques virtually everyone might be able to use

A proiect to build a virtual brain 

A virtual world designed to enhance learning, By putting students in realistic situations and encouraging practise based learning.