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Inmates Use VR To Prepare For Life On The Outside

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Since 2005, the United States Supreme Court has battled tirelessly to reduce the brutal mandatory sentences of minors by courts and as a result the sentencing of life without parole for juveniles was made unconstitutional in 2012.

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Nintendo Enters VR With ‘Mario Kart GP VR’

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An official VR remake of the 2005 arcade classic, Mario Kart GP, the experience has players sit in a metal rig similar to a go-kart wearing not only an HTC Vive headset, but two Vive trackers strapped to each wrist. However the most exciting of the VR experiences being offered has to be Mario Kart GP VR.

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Made in Europe: 5 European XR startups at the service of art that you should know about.

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Virtual reality is one of the technologies with the greatest potential that spans across different fields such as training, education and medicine, among others. In recent years, the application of this technology in cultural knowledge has been on the rise. Source: Evgenia.B

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Building The VR Experiences And Worlds of the Future

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Pretty soon, real life will be stranger than fiction when it comes to bringing the great inventions of science fiction and games into technology. His team is working to improve the state of VR technology and to bring VR to mainstream audiences. From 1998 to 2005, he served as games technical strategist at Intel.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Adding to the Book of Face’s massive plans for mixed reality technology, they have made good on their promise to make a 360 camera open source and available to anyone. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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United Nations’ Creative Director on VR as the Ultimate Empathy Machine

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Arora’s work has been at cross section of storytelling and technology, and diplomacy and humanitarian efforts. He proved the power of using emerging technology to promote humanitarian goals. Roger Ebert actually cited movies as the “most powerful empathy machine” during his Walk of Fame speech in 2005.

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Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

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When I graduated college in 2005, the technology was pretty limited and relegated to military and really high-end entertainment; it wasn’t something people could get their hands on. VR makes those sorts of sci-fi dreams a reality today.

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