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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

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How do you think virtual reality will improve over the next few years? You’re probably hoping for better ways to see, hear and touch virtual worlds. Michael Abrash, chief scientist at Oculus, seems to agree: when he outlined his predictions for the next five years of VR last October, he focused on these three senses.

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Meta makes fundraising easier ahead of Earth Day

Mashable VR

Starting this month, the center will highlight climate action steps for individuals and add new data visualizations for country-specific emission levels. The company also added interactive wildlife conservation experiences for users of its virtual reality system Meta Quest.

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SIGGRAPH 2019 Conference Will Feature Four World-Premiere VR/AR Experiences

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Project Jua – Project Jua is an interactive VR experience that raises awareness of the impact of not having easy access to electricity, taking the player to a rural farm in Kenya to experience firsthand the challenges of living off the grid to discover an African solar power solution that is improving lives. City of Sparkles.

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The 2020 Sundance Film Festival Is Absolutely Stacked With Experimental Immersive Media

VRScout

Since its inception, Sundance’s New Frontier programming block has featured an incredible lineup of experimental content, incorporating everything from AR, VR, and AI, to big data, biotech, facial recognition, and even rocket travel. An immersive virtual reality journey to heal the Earth–by becoming a mushroom.

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Startups Weekly: Chinese investors double down on African startups

TechCrunch VR

Chinese actors investing heavily in African mobile consumer platforms lends to looking at new data-privacy and security issues for the continent.” Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after Goldman investment. African fintech startup OPay gains $120M from Chinese investors .

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Tribeca Film Festival’s Virtual Arcade Steps Up VR Game For 2018

VRScout

Narrated by Lupita Nyong’o, My Africa is a 360-degree documentary short dedicated to covering the impressive efforts by Northern Kenya tribes to protect African wildlife from poachers. Key data visualizations highlighting the amount of nuclear weapons currently in existence was literally shocking.

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Suzanne Borders says it all on being a female entrepreneur in XR

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Second part of my interview with Suzanne Borders , the CEO of BadVR , a company that mixes technology and creativity to disrupt the data visualization sector. I published one recently about why using VR for visual data visualization and analytics. I’ve written a lot of non-poetic, non-creative pieces about technology.

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