VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Alaska Airlines new VR theater experience could make you forget you are on an airplane. Seeing its potential as a new form of airborne entertainment, Seattle, WA-based Alaska Airlines has begun testing an inflight VR entertainment package that would swap out the standard head-rest screen with a super lightweight Qualcomm Snapdragon powered SkyLights Allosky VR headset that would offer a selection of 2D and 3D films along with 360 VR content during your trip.

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Digital Trends

JULY 20, 2022

Alaska Airlines is to start offering some of its passengers digital baggage tags in what it claims is a first for U.S News Alaska Airlines baggage tags digital tags Travelcarriers.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Scientists have long assumed that a thick, solid mass of permafrost underpins all of Alaska like the sturdy foundation of a house, stretching from the tundra to the and below the seafloor. permafrost alaska ice ice maybe

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Alaska Airlines announced on Tuesday that it will no longer allow passengers to bring emotional support animals on its aircraft for any reservations made after January 11. alaska airlines service animals department of transportation dot airlines transportation flights

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GizModo VR

JUNE 17, 2020

In the last year, some big banks have committed to protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska through withholding their investments from the Arctic as a whole. Seems like Alaska’s elected officials are pretty pissed about it.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This time, the unwanted accolade goes to Alaska, which set a statewide temperature record for December just days before the end of the year, according to the National Weather Service. Ah, another day, another incomprehensible temperature record.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 27, 2022

Alaska is struggling through a record breaking wildfire season. A million acres have burned as of June 15, the earliest in decades, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 29, 2021

magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska, roughly 60 miles southeast of the town of Chignik, triggering a tsunami warning for large parts of Alaska early Thursday morning, according to the U.S.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

European-crafted glass beads found at three different indigenous sites in northern Alaska date back to the pre-colonial period of North America, in what is an intriguing archaeological discovery.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 25, 2022

Qualcomm, Skylights, and Alaska Airlines are taking advantage of this fact to deliver premium in-flight entertainment to a new generation of travellers. This initiative began with equipping the premium cabin passengers on certain Alaska Airlines flights with premium Allosky XR headsets.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 26, 2021

An Alaska state senator filmed arguing with Alaska Airlines staff and police at Juneau International Airport over her refusal to wear a mask before boarding a flight is finding out the hard way that actions have consequences.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 25, 2021

On Monday, an Alaska Airlines flight was forced to evacuate all 129 passengers after landing at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport after one of those passenger’s phones caught ablaze. Another day, another story of a Samsung phone turning into a ticking time bomb.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In a turn of events that will surprise exactly no one at this point, a large swath of the United States is currently experiencing an extreme and unprecedented weather event. Read more. texas united states fahrenheit dallas weather cold wave national weather service

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

The heat wave currently roasting the Pacific Northwest has made its way up to Alaska, where a 2.7 magnitude ice quake — the result of seismic activity triggered by melting glaciers — was just recorded 25 miles east of Juneau. Read more.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A preview of Murmur debuted at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska earlier this month. The post HoloLens Exhibit Teleports You to the Tundra of Arctic Alaska appeared first on VRScout. Holograms take you to a faraway Arctic marsh. Connecticut naval museum Mystic Seaport is opening an exhibit that uses Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality headset to let guests walk into a tundra through holograms and spatialized sound.

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GizModo VR

MAY 13, 2022

Department of the Interior announced Wednesday that it is canceling three offshore oil and gas drilling lease sales: one in Alaska’s Cook Inlet and the other two in the Gulf of Mexico. In a rare nugget of climate-related good news, the U.S.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A conservation group has tracked a migration for the ages, in which a male bar-tailed godwit flew from Alaska to New Zealand without taking a single break.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 20, 2021

The chain of 2,500 islands jut off the coast of mainland Alaska and form a 1,200-mile (1,931-kilometer) arc in the Bering Sea. Photographer and filmmaker Ian Shive is known for documenting remote locations, and it doesn’t get much more remote than the Aleutian Islands.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 22, 2021

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Slashgear

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Alaska Airlines announced today that is has a new way for some flyers to pass the time while they’re in the air, as it has outfitted some of cross-country routes with VR headsets. Generally speaking, air travel is a pretty dull affair that is nonetheless a reality of life for a lot of people. More specifically, Allosky headsets from SkyLights … Continue reading. Archive airplanes flight Travel virtual reality vr

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

An unusually powerful volcanic eruption in 43 BCE has been linked to political upheaval on the other side of the globe, including the fall of the Roman Republic and the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Read more. volcanic eruptions climate change atmospheric science ancient rome history science

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This week, Seth Lookhart, a former dentist in Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced to 12 years in jail after a video of him removing a patient’s tooth while riding a hoverboard drew… Read more. viral villains seth lookhart dentist hoverboard alaska sentencing

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 27, 2022

The former Alaska governor and disastrous presidential running mate is in the Big Apple to sue the New York Times for libel after it insinuated that her rhetoric was tied to the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, which left six dead and Rep.

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GizModo VR

JULY 7, 2020

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

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GizModo VR

APRIL 7, 2022

New archaeological and geological evidence points to an ancient earthquake that devastated populations along a 620-mile-long stretch of the South American coastline some 3,800 years ago. But the evidence also suggests that the affected communities found ways to cope. Read more.

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MAY 14, 2021

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JANUARY 25, 2021

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 11, 2022

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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2021

Airline trade associations and unions are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to do something about the inundation of soulless passengers raising drunken hell in the lawless skies. Specifically, they want them put in prison. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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MAY 10, 2021

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MAY 20, 2021

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