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Discover Latin America’s XR ecosystem with Oscar Cartagena

The Ghost Howls

For the past 5 years I’ve been hell-bent on creating a solid XR industry in Chile by funding the first (and only) trade union association dedicated to XR technologies and immersive experiences , the Asociación Gremial Chilena de Experiencias Inmersivas (ACHEX A.G.). It’s a royal pain to get hardware in Chile.

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Sketchfab Launches Public Domain Program so Museums Can Share Cultural Relics in 3D

Road to VR

To accomplish this, Sketchfab has partnered with 27 such organizations from 13 different countries, including the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Denmark, Chile’s Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, and the Cleveland Museum of Art to name a few. Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, CL. Ingenium, CA.

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How Deep-Sea Fiber Optic Cables Could ‘Transform’ Our Detection of Earthquakes

GizModo VR

Many miles off the western coast of the Americas, an undersea cable connects Los Angeles, California to Valparaiso, Chile. The cable is fiber optic; it’s a lifeline for data transmitted between the two continents. Stretched end-to-end, it’s equal to four-fifths of the Earth’s diameter. But according to new research,… Read more.

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Packaging the Future

Tech Trends VR

Over the past few years we’ve invested in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation and data exchange to enhance traceability, predict potential machine problems and optimise operational performance for our customers,” explains Johan Nilsson VP, Digitalisation and Industry 4.0 at Tetra Pak. ”By Industry 4.0

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How scientists find the big asteroids that can threaten Earth

Mashable VR

The ATLAS telescopes — two in Hawaii, one in Chile, and one in South Africa — can scan the entire sky each night. Someone always has eyes on the data coming out of the telescopes." Rubin Observatory , located over 8,700 feet up in Chile's Cerro Pachón ridge, will come online.

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Vigilant amateur asteroid hunters keep watch for menacing space rocks

Mashable VR

He rushed to submit his data to the Minor Planet Center, which beat the Catalina Sky Survey , a NASA-funded program based at the University of Arizona, by several hours. Most asteroids are of no consequence to Earth, but a small percentage of big ones come within 4.6 million miles of Earth's orbit around the sun. Credit: Bob Stephens.

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There were almost two internets. Then, the CIA destroyed one.

Mashable VR

In Mashable’s new three-part episode of our series on the digital age's dark side, Kernel Panic , we explore a startlingly advanced computer network developed in Salvador Allende's Chile of the 1970s.

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