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Rebekah Jones, Fired Florida Data Scientist, Raises $100K After Cops Stormed Her Home

GizModo VR

It’s a tale as old as time: Woman becomes data curator for the Florida government during a global pandemic, Florida government fires woman for accurately reporting the data it’s trying to suppress, woman continues to tweet accurate but forbidden statistics about deadly virus to a massive online following, Florida law… Read more.

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Florida Whistleblower Rebekah Jones Turns Herself In 'to Protect Her Family' From Local Police

GizModo VR

Rebekah Jones, the Florida data scientist turned whistleblower who accused state authorities of manipulating covid-19 data, turned herself in to local police on Sunday night to, as she put it , “protect her family” from ongoing police harassment.

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Orlando is ‘The MetaCenter’: Pushing Boundaries in the Metaverse

ARPost

The metaverse community witnessed a new milestone as Orlando proved it is “the MetaCenter ” by hosting a business event in the ENGAGE metaverse platform for the VR/AR Association’s Orlando/Central Florida Chapter. Orlando, Florida, has always been at the forefront of cutting-edge technology like next-gen gaming, AI, IoT, and AR/VR.

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Generators help grids stay up through Florida hurricane

Hypergrid Business

Several OpenSim grids using a Florida-based data center for their hosting have been able to stay up during Hurricane Irma with the help of backup generators. “Our data center has switched back to normal utility power and all is well.” View of Hurricane Irma from space. Image courtesy NASA.).

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Interview to Eduardo Siman: virtual reality makes data visualization fun, we should all work together to make AR and VR to succeed

The Ghost Howls

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) realityI.

AllThingsVR

A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) reality I hold in my hands what looks and feels like a wand from a Harry Potter film. The game—and the wand—were developed by Pat Starace , director of the digital fabrication course at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida.

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USC Launches $1bn XR, Generative AI Initiative

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Specialities include computer science, data analytics, the creative economy, telemedicine , imaging , and others. Disciplines will include research and development (R&D) for AI, machine learning (ML), quantum information, blockchain, and data science.

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