GizModo VR

MARCH 25, 2021

Authorities reported several injuries and fatalities in Alabama as tornadoes tore through the Birmingham metro area on Thursday. The storms, which come on the heels of roughly 50 tornadoes that hit the region last week, left flattened homes and extensive property damage in their wake. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 7, 2021

It’s sunny and in the mid-70s in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama right now. Normally, that would be prime conditions for a swim in Davis Creek or Texas Creek. But right now, both are running black, full of thick wastewater runoff. Read more.

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VRScout

MAY 5, 2021

According to Dorsch, SimX’s VR medical training program will be used at the new Special Operations Center for Medical Integration and Development (SOCMID); a collaboration between the University of Alabama-Birmingham and the U.S.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 8, 2021

Amazon reportedly pressured the United States Postal Service to expedite the installation of a mailbox outside of its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse ahead of a high-profile union vote, a move union supporters argue is a blatant tactic to intimidate employees. Read more.

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VRScout

JUNE 12, 2020

The Selma to Montgomery march was organized in response to the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson , an African American veteran and civil rights activist who was unarmed, was beaten and then shot by Alabama State Troopers during what was supposed to be a peaceful voting rights march.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The two XR companies had also come together before to create an AR experience centered around the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, which was an important setting for a number of major events in Black history leading up to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Exploring Black History in Medicine.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A last-ditch attempt by Amazon to delay a vote on unionization at one of its larger warehouses has failed, paving the way for the first serious effort to organize workers at the tech giant since a failed attempt in Delaware in 2014. Read more.

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VRScout

JUNE 22, 2023

As a multi-user, non-interactive augmented reality (AR) piece, Colored explored the protest of Claudette Colvin who, at 15 years old, refused to give up a bus seat to a white passenger in Alabama just nine months before Rosa Parks did so.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

While around 5,800 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama vote on whether to unionize, Amazon has been trying to win over hearts and minds with a slew of ham-handed anti-union propaganda in their warehouse bathroom stalls, on their phones, and now on the Amazon-owned streaming service Twitch. Earlier this week,… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A Birmingham-based oil and gas producer called Diversified Energy has built its business model on buying up old, low-producing gas wells which are spewing out methane, reporting from Bloomberg shows. The wells are largely not very productive—thousands of them were producing no usable gas at all at the time of… Read more.

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ARPost

MARCH 16, 2023

Transfr was also recognized for using VR training to enhance workforce development in areas such as career exploration in Alabama, Indiana, and Montana, and electrician training. This includes noteworthy industry firsts such as GameDriver ’s out-of-the-box automated testing solution, and Big Rock Creative’s VR-only comic book convention.

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VRScout

JULY 6, 2020

Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox, Noisia, Jamie Jones, Seth Troxler, Frank Turner, Alabama 3, and Coldcut; just some of the many many acts that performed live on stage as either a 2D green screen hologram or a custom 3D avatar. This ended up being more difficult than I thought, as there was plenty of incredible acts to catch.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 19, 2021

A litany of allegations about Amazon’s anti-union offensive today comes from the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). After Amazon workers in Bessemer chose not to unionize by a 1,798 to 738 vote, the RWDSU has accused the company of offering workers an impossible choice: reject the union or lose… Read more.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 9, 2021

Amazon has won the first round in its fight to squash a union in its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse. Hundreds of contested ballots remain, but Amazon has reached the minimum threshold of 1,608 “no” votes needed to prevent workers from joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The public count of… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 1, 2021

Joe Biden has effectively endorsed ongoing unionization efforts at an Amazon facility in the state of Alabama and warned the e-commerce giant that its efforts to shut down the drive must involve “no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda.” Read more.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

We’ve heard allegations that it threatened Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse workers with shutting down the warehouse amid their attempt to unionize. A bootstrap Amazon unionization effort is underway in Staten Island, and lo and behold, Amazon is firing up the union-busting campaign early. Now it’s just dumping a crock of… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 13, 2021

A guy in Alabama had apparently used my account to buy an iPhone, and I needed to send over some details to dispute the charges. Earlier today, some random person with a random Los Angeles-based area code number called my phone with some terrible news: My Amazon account had been hacked. Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Skywatchers in Georgia and Alabama were treated to a glorious light show this Tuesday when a rare earthgrazing meteor zoomed across the night sky. Read more.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 8, 2021

Breaking from Alabama: We are this much closer to learning the results of the historic union election at Amazon’s Bessemer, AL warehouse. The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) reports that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has received 3,125 ballots. This means that a majority of about… Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Today, 5,800 Alabama warehouse workers have been sent mail-in ballots and can begin voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). At long last, Amazon has a unionization vote on its hands, the first and only since 2014. If they vote in favor, RWDSU will be the first union to gain… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 30, 2021

As Amazon employees in Bessemer, Alabama near a ballot count for their union election, Amazon is engaged in another sweep of last-ditch efforts to salvage the company’s reputation as a GREAT workplace and it made another thwarted attempt to micro-monitor the ballot count. All around, it’s a bad look for Amazon, but… Read more.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 26, 2022

Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama get to re-vote on unionizing This reporting comes after a San Francisco court found in Oct. SEE ALSO: Tesla sued in California for alleged racial discrimination and harassment. How to set boundaries at work Companies hope new benefits will solve your mental health issues. Don't fall for it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Watson and Clemson took on the University of Alabama in the most recent title game and, when facing the blitz from the defending champs in the final quarter, Watson completed 6 of 7 passes with two touchdowns. “I I didn’t know what to expect early on from (the VR), but it’s been great for us,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney says.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

"More premium song packs are coming in the next few months, featuring other legendary bands and tracks, but more about this later."

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Digital Trends

JULY 18, 2020

The Artemis I adapter has been shipped from Alabama to Florida.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 1, 2022

Votes are currently being counted for a second Amazon unionization effort in Bessemer, Alabama. But perhaps now, those workers in favor of unionizing in Alabama have reason to hope. Those workers have organized under the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), not the independent ALU. Tweet may have been deleted.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Most notably, though, is Transfr’s recent work in Alabama. The company is behind a statewide initiative in Alabama where its software is being used in the community college system and industrial workforce commission for re-skilling purposes. Since March, Transfr’s customers have quadrupled.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 19, 2022

Both the unionization and Bryson's rehiring are notable given Amazon's controversial history of worker relations.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

A slew of Amazon workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver, and Southern California are looking into unionizing, emboldened by their Alabama coworkers’ high-profile union campaign , Bloomberg reported Friday. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The programme will include the following universities and their respective programmes: Stanford University and its Business School partnership with BodySwaps to learn soft skills Arizona State University to teach language skills in virtual environments New Mexico State University , who has applied VR to criminal justice for crime scene evaluations (..)

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Snap and the Corporate Flight from California California’s latest initiative aims to attract investors and jobs amid a massive migration of companies to other states like Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, and others.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Administrators in Mobile, Alabama, recently voted to spend close to $50,000 on ten virtual reality headsets to help them provide crisis intervention training for their police force. “In the future, there will be a lot of things on the metaverse, and law enforcement will need to be ready for those challenges.”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Birmingham, Alabama. SIGGRAPH // July 20th – August 3rd. Los Angeles, California. Registration: Exhibitor | Attendee. Sidewalk Film Festival // August 24th – August 28th. Registration: Exhibitor | Attendee. Driving Simulation Conference (DSC) // September 6th – September 8th. Paris, France.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 29, 2022

There's Asia Banks , former captain of the Alabama State HoneyBeez, the first exclusively plus-size dance team at an HBCU, who shares her grief over losing her father who was killed by police. This is what rehearsing for Bonnaroo in the backyard looks like, right? Credit: James Clark / Amazon Studios.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The name of the project came through Kevin’s love for Bourbon and other spirits, mostly from Kentucky, Alabama and Tennessee. Systrom also said that his first idea didn’t worked out. Instagram came out of a project called Burbn. Today, this social media platform has over 400 million active users.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon has a message for its workers: if you want to unionize so badly, you’ll need to risk catching the coronavirus to do it. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The programme will include the following universities and their respective programmes: Stanford University and its Business School partnership with BodySwaps to learn soft skills Arizona State University to teach language skills in virtual environments New Mexico State University, which has applied VR to criminal justice for crime scene evaluations (..)

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