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Cowards Hit Papua New Guinea With Ransomware During Covid-19 Surge

GizModo VR

Papua New Guinea’s government finance office has been hit with a ransomware cyberattack and the hackers are demanding bitcoin, according to Bloomberg News.

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Health Official in Papua New Guinea Explains How Facebook Spreads Misinformation

GizModo VR

Papua New Guinea’s health minister, Jelta Wong, spoke with an Australian think tank over videochat on Thursday about challenges PNG faces in combatting the covid-19 pandemic.

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The Horrific Guinea Worm Is on the Run—Just 14 Cases Reported Worldwide Last Year

GizModo VR

On Wednesday, the Carter Center announced that only 14 cases of guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2021—the lowest toll yet and a sharp decline from the year before. A debilitating parasitic worm could soon be eradicated as one of humanity’s longtime foes.

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Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence

GizModo VR

subspecies livestock pig pork domestic pig taxa guinea pig mammals biology miniature pigThe four pigs came to win. If they played the game well, they got delicious dog food (they used to get M&Ms, but the humans decided those were too sugary).

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World’s Smallest Hogs Released Into Wild

GizModo VR

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This Little AI-Powered Robot Pet Is So Cute it Hurts

GizModo VR

I’m not sure if Moflin is supposed to be a robotic hamster, guinea pig, baby bunny, or some alternate take on a Tribble , but goddamn this robo-pet is cute.

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An Ancient Breed of Singing Dog Isn't Extinct in the Wild After All

GizModo VR

The study details genetic evidence suggesting that the New Guinea singing dog—thought to have only existed in captivity for the past 50 years—is still alive in the wilds of Indonesia.

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Ebola Has Returned to Africa and Officials Are Racing to Contain It

GizModo VR

As of Tuesday, there have been at least 11 cases and seven deaths in two countries, including Guinea, which had a massive outbreak in 2013 that ultimately left 11,000… Read more.

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Experimental Anti-Tick Vaccine Aims to Stop Bites That Could Spread Lyme

GizModo VR

In a new study involving guinea pigs, an experimental… Read more.

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A Mystery Worm Infection in Vietnam Shows a New Species Can Live in Humans

GizModo VR

The worms inside the man weren’t the Guinea worm ( Dracunculus medinensis ), a now-rare parasite on the brink of eradication, as originally thought.

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Ebola Can Hide in Humans for Years Before Killing Again, New Research Finds

GizModo VR

New genetic research appears to confirm a fear scientists had about a deadly outbreak of Ebola in Guinea this February: The source of the outbreak was likely the dormant remnants of the virus in a survivor who caught it at least five years earlier.

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This Guy Is Spending A Full Week In VR, For Science

VRScout

To do this, the brave virtual guinea pig is utilizing a variety of VR headsets to fit his various needs. 168 hours. Multiple headsets. One fascinating livestream. What’s the longest amount of time you’ve spent immersed in VR? Three, maybe four hours? Don’t worry, I won’t judge. After all, it’s easy to lose track of time while slicing through colored blocks in Beat Saber or hunting down enemy squads in Onward. But just how long is too long exactly?

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Owatch™ | Unbelievable deals at the Global Shopping Carnival (11.11) that you shouldn’t miss

Steki Amusement

As we all know, The world’s largest retail event, double 11 sales, which is equivalent to Black Friday, is the biggest online shopping festival in the world, customers can purchase their favorite stuff at their budget price tag!

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Hands-on: Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens is Further Along Than You Might Think

Road to VR

And while the Mojo Vision smart contact lens is still much thicker than your typical contact lens, last week the company demonstrated this prototype can work in an actual human eye, using Mojo Vision CEO Drew Perkins as the guinea pig.

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Limited time offer – Get up to 20% off on for Owatch Amusement Rides! Enjoy this limited time offer, and get more for less!

Steki Amusement

July has passed, and OWATCH ushers in the promotion season in August. The more you buy, the more discount you get. The maximum discount is 20%. Metaverse is the hottest topic at present. Do you want to start your own VR business? This OWATCH promotion season can’t be missed!

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Huge Promotion for 9D VR Chair Cinema/Simulator and VR Park

Steki Amusement

Wholesale High-Quality 9D VR Cinema Price Products from Owatch / 9D VR Simulator Price VR Park for sale, China Factory. Worldwide Shipping! Stock Sale! China professional 9D Virtual Reality Price Rides & VR Game Machine Suppliers Factory.

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EON Reality Presents at Nordic VR Forum

EON Reality

At the 2018 edition of the Nordic VR Forum, EON Reality Norway didn’t just attend Hamar’s distinguished virtual reality conference but also presented the “ Jesper on Wheels ” project to an eager crowd. With hundreds of attendees from 10 different nations and even more viewers following along with the event’s livestreams online, the annual event proved successful in every way.

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Caterpillar Is Using AR To Connect Workers And Maintenance Support

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

As major companies such as Caterpillar serve as AR guinea pigs in a way, other companies will take note of any successes and begin to adopt these practices to make a lot of lives easier. The presence of mixed reality in industries outside of entertainment is constantly growing. With augmented reality specifically, we recently reported on an intriguing way an elevator company was equipping their technicians with HoloLens to make their work a great deal safer and more efficient.

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9D Virtual Reality Cinema: VR Multiplayer Entertainment Solution

Steki Amusement

Factory price, factory shipment. Virtual reality cinema equipment. Owatch's new product has a cool UFO appearance. 9D chairs with 10 seats, virtual reality theme park preferred. Small footprint and high return on investment! 360° immersive entertainment.

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GOOD NEWS! Owatch August BIG SALE, UP TO 20% OFF!

Steki Amusement

Everyone who wants to start a business will think so. ” What is the most profitable business right now? How much does it cost to start a VR business? “ If you want to start your VR business, then you can’t miss the best discounts that Owatch will launch in August! Buy more and save more!

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How Immersive Technology Is Advancing Healthcare

ARPost

This is clearly because no one is going to put their hand up to be the guinea pig. As immersive technology has become more advanced with time, it has had an increasing role in medicine.

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Taking a Virtual Spin Around The Solar System

Tech Trends VR

After demoing it myself, I also got my seven-year-old niece try it, and even though by now she’s a bit of a VR veteran (using your family members as guinea pigs is standard practice in my household), the experience still had her shouting out in excitement, and – most tellingly – incorporating space exploration themes into her play afterward. A French company is creating beautiful educational space simulations in VR.

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Hand interactive VR Game Simulator, the latest One-stop Arcade Unattended VR Machine

Steki Amusement

Owatch Launched the New VR Plus Series! Hand Interactive VR Game Simulator !!! Unique Interactive VR Coin-op Game set to take the market by VR WOW! Owatch Interactive Simulator Ride.

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Smart Nations Powered By Augmented Virtual Reality

EON Reality

Advances in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are reshaping the way we learn and interact with our world. Workers with access to real-time contextual information, displayed when and where they need it will reshape the workplace and dramatically improve the efficiency, productivity, and safety of the average worker. The future is here, with EON Reality’s Augmented Virtual Reality (AVR) technology. CONTACT US. Name *. First. Job Title * Email *.

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What is 5D/7D Cinema?

Steki Amusement

5D Cinema is a form of film art expression developed on the basis of 4D Cinema. It contains all the functions of 4D theater. 5D theater uses seat effects and environmental effects to simulate lightning and thunder, wind, frost, rain and snow, and explosion impact.

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John Oliver's water explainer comes with a very sweary Brian Cox cameo

Mashable VR

There's so many things I'd rather talk about to you than your stupid, stupid water usage, like the meaning of life, or which animal I created by mistake (guinea pigs, by the way).

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‘Affected: The Manor’ Coming to Rift Oculus Rift & Touch this Month, Vive to Follow

Road to VR

The series’ first commercial release came to the Gear VR in last year in the form of Affected: The Manor , and was well received by our brave and intrepid horror guinea pig Chris Madsen. A popular horror title on Gear VR, the latest instalment of the Affected franchise will be coming to Oculus Rift with Touch motion controller support in February, according to developers Fallen Planet.

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Take A Virtual Tour Around The Solar System With ‘Overview’

VRScout

After demoing it myself, I was able to get my seven-year-old niece try it, and even though by now she’s a bit of a VR veteran (using your family members as guinea pigs is standard practice in my household), the experience still had her shouting out in excitement, and – most tellingly – incorporating space exploration themes into her play afterward. A French company is using VR to create the next generation of educational space simulators.

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Scale Learning and Teaching for the Online Classroom

EON Reality

At EON Reality, we are working at lightning speed to help classrooms around the world transition safely and effectively to an online classroom. As we shift towards preparing for tomorrow it is now more important than ever to build resilience into our online classrooms.

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Ouverture des inscriptions à EON Entrepreneur School

EON Reality

Vous rêvez de créer les nouvelles applications en Réalité Virtuelle et Augmentée ? Saisissez cette opportunité avec EON ENTREPRENEUR SCHOOL. Cette formation est le fruit d’un partenariat entre EON Reality, le leader mondial de la Réalité Virtuelle et Augmentée, et l’IMIE, école de la filière numérique présente sur 7 campus (Nantes, Angers, Rennes, Le Mans, Caen, Paris et Laval).

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Distorting Virtual Reality

Tech Trends VR

In the experience, you follow a woman (Ricci) suffering from bipolar disorder as she comes to suspect the proprietor of the state-of-the-art ”smart apartment” she and her husband just moved into is using the building’s residents as unwitting guinea pigs for a ”synthetic telepathy” brainwashing plot with dire global ramifications. John Cusack and Christina Ricci have their VR debut with the Distorted Experience.

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John Cusack & Christina Ricci Make Their VR Debut In ?Distorted Reality?

VRScout

In the experience, you follow a woman (Ricci) who begins suffering from a bipolar disorder as she comes to suspect the proprietor of the state-of-the-art ”smart apartment” she and her husband just moved into is using the building’s residents as unwitting guinea pigs for a ”synthetic telepathy” brainwashing plot with dire global ramifications.

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The AVR Platform and Classroom 3.0 Showcased at EduTECH Asia 2018

EON Reality

At EduTECH Asia 2018 this week in Singapore, EON Reality spent two full days speaking, promoting, and demonstrating the latest updates to the AVR Platform to the thousands of education and technology professionals in attendance.

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Now Recruiting: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Enthusiasts of Dubai, UAE

EON Reality

EON Reality and EAIT (Emirates Advanced Investments Trading) have partnered to form EON Reality UAE LLC , an Interactive Digital Center (IDC) focused on vocational skills training and higher education utilizing Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. The IDC houses an Entrepreneur School, which teaches the skills needed to be successful in creating Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality content and applications for industry and training.

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Owatch Virtual Reality: Canton Tower XR Rides Cinema is located in Guangzhou, China

Steki Amusement

With the continuous maturity of virtual reality technology, the development of virtual reality equipment is becoming more and more rapid. You may be able to see VR in large shopping malls and commercial circles. Currently, VR is not yet popular. But the market for VR is still very broad. Nowadays, VR cinema is the new direction of VR development. It has broken through the traditional movie viewing mode through VR virtual reality technology. 9d virtual reality equipment.

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Open House: Animation, Digital Art, and Computer Science Majors Invited to the Augmented & Virtual Reality Programme in Norway

EON Reality

Join the Open House March 22nd at Hamar Campus. Auditorium 3 Between 11:00 – 14:00. Augmented and Virtual Reality are some of the fastest growing sectors of our economy. These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students.

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Top 5 Best Racing Simulator or Virtual Reality Racing Equipment

Steki Amusement

We pick the best racing simulator for different budgets and needs. This list will help you choose the racing simulator best suited to you and your equipment. Racing Simulator Games.