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There's no need to freak out over Elon Musk buying Twitter. He's all hype.

Mashable VR

Except he isn't a founder at all , joining well after Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning created Tesla in 2003. Activists have used it as a tool to organize and spread the word on truly important social justice issues. Elon Musk is the "genius" co-founder of Tesla, according to his bio on the company website. Twitter would lose money.

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A VR-based Approach to ADHD

Veative

By creating specially designed virtual environments for the detection, assessment and treatment of this disorder, Virtual Reality can serve both as a diagnostic tool and an effective therapeutic strategy in the rehabilitation of children with ADHD. 2,2, 2003, pp.104-13. How can VR help children with ADHD. The VR-based approach to ADHD.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

We were using VR not as a thing to study in and of itself, but we were using it as a tool to run more rigorous social psych studies. In 2003 I was lucky enough to see a job that was advertised at Stanford in the department of communications. We all think about VR as a medium today, but in 1999 or 2003, not so much.

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Simula One aims at becoming your portable Linux VR computer

The Ghost Howls

I can make an analogy to what happened in 2003, when most people believed that Windows and Palm were destined to control the mobile market, but instead, an obscure Linux-based OS named Android (running on a small number of ultra-premium phones, like the T-Mobile Sidekick) actually beat them to it! What are the specifications of the headset?

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Sex toys, meet Sephora: How the sexual (marketing) revolution affects where we shop

Mashable VR

The rise of the sex shop Here's a depressing fact: Lieberman herself was selling vibrators as "massagers" while working as an in-home sex toy salesperson in Texas in 2003. Here's a less depressing fact: there were meaningful steps taken forward for sex toy positivity between 1900 and 2003. ” Sexual wellness it is, then.

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