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Google Helps Preserve Endangered Historical Sites in VR

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Referred to as the Open Heritage project, the operation had CyArk utilize their advanced 3D laser-scanning technology to record critical data at important sites and render the information into a detailed VR recreation. You are also free to apply for the data thanks to the Google Cloud Platform.

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Change in the Social Movement Ecosystem

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These evolutions include virtual reality and data visualization. By allowing donors, volunteers, and staff access to a new world or a normally accessible place, they can have a visual and first-hand account of anything from homelessness in America to a day in the life of a refugee in Syria (Schneider,2020).

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Google warns of 'hermit spyware' infecting Android and iOS devices

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This sophisticated spyware tool allows attackers to steal data, private messages and make phone calls. Potential targets of this scam will have their data disabled through their ISP carrier before sending a malicious link via text to get them to ‘fix’ the issue. Hermit poses many significant dangers.

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AT&T Shows Future of VR/AR at Developer Summit

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An award-winning creator and CEO of Emblematic Group, de la Pena is a pioneer in immersive journalism – one of her most famous projects is Project Syria, which was made for the World Economic Forum. One of the most recognizable faces in the industry, Nonny de la Pena is nicknamed the “Godmother of Virtual Reality.”

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Hands-on: New GTX 10-Series Equipped Notebooks Put Desktop VR Performance in a Portable Package

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The 1070 and 1080 laptops from HP were both running Raw Data , an intense VR sci-fi shooter. It was certainly giving out some heat at the back, but very reasonable considering the fairly high ambient temperature and the taxing environment of running VR demonstrations for several hours.

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Why VR Will Change The Way We Absorb The News

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Project Syria , the refugee piece that we made for the World Economic Forum, is now up on Steam (where it’s been getting a lot of racist, anti-immigrant feedback, fyi.) That’s a bit of a departure for us — it’s a 3D visualization of live data from the U.S. Where are these experiences published? stock markets.

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How Virtual Reality Can Be Used To Fight Racism And Prejudice In Society

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She then detailed how they would be using qualitative data to help design content for the project. One of her major pieces, Project Syria , was the topic of our discussion. We put Project Syria on Steam and the response was horrible,” de la Peña exclaimed. Unfortunately, something like that seems borderline impossible.