A visit to Digital Karnak.
Start with the Digital Karnack and take an in-depth look at the temples, buildings, and monuments that make up this ancient place of worship, located near Luxor, Egypt. Pick from a variety of angles to watch the animation from, and you'll notice the river's tide moving as the years progress. Log on to Digital Karnak to experience Egypt for yourself.
If Rome is your city of choice, take a look at this digital model of the Roman Forum, a focal architectural point in the development of ancient Roman civilization. The website uses modern technology to try and understand historical and cultural contexts of Roman civilization. Go to the Digital Roman Forum to get an inside look at this Roman wonder.
Hypercities.com allows people to experience places from New York City to Berlin, letting you go back in time to create a community and social network that connects the past with the present. The site is continuing to expand and offer more history-rich cities to visit.
The "Meth-Apartment," a project under the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, uses the virtual reality of Second Life to try to further understand underlying motives that make people want to use meth. Participants experience different settings — a clean control room, and an apartment that looks like it belongs to a drug addict — from the first-person view of their avatar, and reactions are measured.
For more information, log onto UCLA's Experimental Technologies Center.
See the complete "Mind Games" package of stories, which are reprinted from July, 2009 UCLA Magazine.
