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SpaceX's Starlink to provide internet access to Tonga

Mashable VR

SpaceX plans to establish a gateway ground station on Fiji, which is about 500 miles away from Tonga, according to a tweet from Fiji’s Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. Repairs on the cable, which runs back to Fiji, are expected to take a month or longer, according to Reuters. Tweet may have been deleted.

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Earth Day: Now You Can Surf With a Legend in VR

VRScout

The team is seeking funding to finish production in the South Pacific this summer to retrace John Ritter’s 1970’s journey through Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. Specifically, the team has partnered up with Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Waitt Institute, and Reef Explorer Fiji.

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Check Out Your Travel Destination In VR Before You Book

VRScout

Current destinations also include Bali, Thailand, the Maldives and destinations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Fiji and Japan will be added in 2019. Recently, Rizort added Dubai, Mexico and the Caribbean to its growing roster of destination offerings.

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Traveling in Virtual Reality

Tech Trends VR

Current destinations also include Bali, Thailand, the Maldives and destinations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Fiji and Japan will be added in 2019. Recently, Rizort added Dubai, Mexico and the Caribbean to its growing roster of destination offerings.

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7 moments of activism that defined the pain and hope of 2022

Mashable VR

New Zealand is one of 14 countries — including Brazil, Samoa, Fiji, Argentina, Germany, and others — that have banned some form of the practice. After its first introduction in July 2021, the bill was met with historically popular petitions and country-wide public input in favor of the new legislation.

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Top 7 Charity Virtual Reality Experiences

VeeR VR

Our Home, Our People" is a documentary project bringing light to the challenges Fiji's islands faces because of the rising sea level. If you're wondering how VR is changing the world for a better place, give this list a read! World Bank World Bank has been dedicated to revealing societal crises through VR.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

The agency creative director likes to go to Fiji for the shoot, but-- Alan: "We've got to fly everybody to Fiji for the week!" This is just one simple example: not having to fly a film crew to Fiji to film a car ad on a beach. Marc: Yeah. laughs] Marc: [chuckles] Yeah. Alan: So let's talk numbers and cents.

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