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Heat Kills Thousands of Cows in Kansas

GizModo VR

High temperatures in Kansas last weekend killed thousands of cattle, authorities confirmed this week, after footage of rows of cattle corpses was widely shared online.

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EON Reality and UMKC Partner to Establish Augmented and Virtual Reality Center in Kansas City

EonReality

EON Reality, the world leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, together with University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Computing and Engineering, will establish an Interactive Digital Center (IDC) in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Panasonic Is Building Its Next Big Tesla Battery Factory in Kansas

GizModo VR

A massive, $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory is coming to Kansas. The Wednesday announcement followed about 45 minutes of closed door discussion between company and state stakeholders, where media were excluded, according to a report from the Topeka Capital-Journal.

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Employee Indicted for Hacking Kansas Water Utility and Trying to Shut Down Key Systems

GizModo VR

Dude allegedly hacked into a computer system that controls a rural water utility in Ellsworth County, Kansas, then messing with the virtual processes that affect procedures for cleaning and disinfecting… Read more.

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Kansas facility tests virtual reality to help people with dementia via @wibw [link]

AllThingsVR

Kansas facility tests virtual reality to help people with dementia via @wibw [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 16, 2017. virtual reality augmented reality vr ar

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Watch Kansas City Royals at Baltimore Orioles tonight (7:05p ET) with Intel’s True VR app.

AllThingsVR

Watch Kansas City Royals at Baltimore Orioles tonight (7:05p ET) with Intel’s True VR app here: [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 1, 2017. virtual reality augmented reality vr ar

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CW's Naomi Wow's Fans With Kaci Walfall in Show's First Official Image

GizModo VR

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Avocados From Mexico Ad Campaign Features AR & AI

VRScout

This coming week, the Kansas City Chiefs will be taking on the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LVII. The “Always Good” experience will include a Super Bowl TV spot as well as a variety of digital activations powered by AR and AI technology.

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Feds Seize Hospital's $500k Ransom Payment from North Korean Hackers

GizModo VR

The Department of Justice says that it has seized approximately $500,000 in ransom payments made by a Kansas medical facility to a North Korean ransomware gang called “Maui” last year.

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Sandbox VR and Netflix Preparing Squid Game VR Experience

ARPost

Sandbox VR – San Francisco, CA More locations are set to open in the near future in Kentucky, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. With 1.65 billion hours viewed, Squid Game is Netflix’s most-watched series.

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Have You Seen Mike Pompeo's $5,800 Bottle of Whiskey?

GizModo VR

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Watch The Super Bowl For Free In VR With ‘Bigscreen’

VRScout

This Sunday the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV. Host your own covid-safe Super Bowl party or meet new friends in the public room.

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10 “Metaversities” Are Opening Across The US This Fall

VRScout

The final three will be announced this May according to Engage: Morehouse College New Mexico State University South Dakota State University Southwestern Oregon Community College University of Maryland Global Campus University of Kansas School of Nursing West Virginia University.

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March Madness 2022: Here's how to watch, livestream Final Four

Mashable VR

The March Madness 2022 Final Four kicks off with Villanova vs. Kansas, followed by storied rivals Duke and North Carolina's face-off, at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans tonight. EST: Villanova vs. Kansas 8:49 p.m. 1 Kansas and No.

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“War Remains” Provides Immersive Experience of World War I

ARPost

MWM Interactive gifted the War Remains location-based experience to the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. This experience is unlike anything that Kansas City has hosted before,” said Matthew Naylor, President and CEO of the National WWI Museum and Memorial. “

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Striking John Deere Workers Reject Second Contract Offer, Hold the Line

GizModo VR

That means nearly 10,000 workers at plants in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas will remain on the picket line, telling their employer they’re fed up and… Read more. John Deere workers who have been striking in protest of the company’s contract offers since Oct.

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Snap Launches Long-Anticipated Custom Landmarkers Tool

ARPost

The Charlie Parker monument in Kansas City got an AR makeover from lens creator Luke Hurd , who used the tool to incorporate spatial audio and images into the public memorial of a jazz legend.

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Design And Race Your Own Car With NASCAR Mobile AR Racing

VRScout

12 – Kansas, Texas, and Martinsville. Compete in AR races against 16 playoff drivers across 10 playoff tracks. It’s no secret that professional sports have been hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This Mom Used VR to Open Up New Worlds for Her Son

VRScout

Tim Bartow is a filmmaker and writer hailing from Kansas City, Missouri. As COO of Blue Chalk Media , an award-winning nonfiction production company, Huling arranged for a Blue Chalk production crew filming in a nearby city to add a stop in Kansas City, where they filmed the indescribable moment in which Tim first experienced virtual reality (shown in the video above). Despite the limitations of his body, now he can use VR to see the world.

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VR MURDER MYSTERY! – Dead Secret Part 1

VR Bites

DEAD SECRET is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. Ready for some light horror, creepy masks, and terrible jokes? Well too bad! Here is the first part of my “Dead Secret” play-through on Steam VR! A reclusive man with a mysterious past is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case. Investigate the crime scene, uncover secret documents, and piece together the puzzle to name his killer.

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How Will AR Play into the Attention Economy?

ARVR

Increasing Reach I was at a Kansas City Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium, and a Coke promotion appeared on the scoreboard during a timeout. For 200 years, brands have looked for and found new ways to capture consumers’ attention.

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HTC Is Working With ‘More Than 30 Teams’ On Vive Content That We’ll See Soon

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

We love one-man teams in Kansas working by themselves.” With $250 million invested in VR content and another $250 million to come, Oculus wants you to know it is helping developers get VR experiences made. HTC, meanwhile, has been a little less direct, but its plans are no less exciting.

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The Shared VR Of Tokyo’s TeamLab Borderless Offers A Glimpse Of An XR Future

VRScout

What at first glance may appear to be doorways turn out to be mirrors, and vice versa, giving you the immediate sense that not only are you no longer in Kansas, but you are no longer on the normative plane of reality—your senses can’t quite be trusted here.

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Enter The Monarchy

ARVR

With Frogworld , the first public NatureSims™ VR prototype, now available on Oculus and Steam, I am turning back to the project that first inspired me to start along this path.

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Suzanne Borders: BadVR is mixing art and technology to innovate data visualization

The Ghost Howls

When he graduated, I was moved to Kansas City, which is in the middle of the country, and no offense to anyone who’s listening from Kansas City… but it’s kind of a smaller town and it’s not as big as San Diego where I was living. because then I can step inside the holodeck and go back to California… I can leave Kansas City and go wherever in the world that I wanted to go , to escape all of the bullying and the people that would make fun of me.

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Intel Cuts 3-Year Deal With MLB For VR Broadcast Content

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Kansas City Royals vs. San Francisco Giants on June 13 at 10:15 p.m. The NBA, NFL, and NCAA have all been tapped for virtual content on a regular basis and will likely continue to forge relationships with immersive content producers as the quality of the hardware and streams continue to increase. Now the MLB is making a big immersive splash with a 3-year partnership with Intel that will be delivered to baseball fans for free.

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LiveLike Adds DVR-Like Replay To Live VR Broadcasts

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In addition to the replay feature, LiveLike will be introducing highlights that include 360-degree footage from previous events like the UFC faceoff between Ronda Rousey and Amanda Nunes, and the campus view during the Kansas State vs Stanford college football game. We’re at an early point in the expansion of the virtual reality industry where a lot of “firsts” will be claimed as companies blaze their own paths toward prominence.

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Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR

Road to VR

Kansas City Royals vs. San Francisco Giants. Live VR broadcasts from the world’s biggest sporting leagues are steadily becoming easier to find. A major new three year partnership between Intel and MLB, America’s leading baseball league, will bring weekly live baseball games streamed in VR for free to Gear VR via Intel’s ‘True VR’ tech.

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Here’s How VR is Helping Athletes Prepare for Games

VRScout

EON Sports has helped Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays and National Football League’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers as well as college teams such as Kansas, UCLA and Ole Miss. A rookie quarterback walks from the huddle to the line of scrimmage, facing a scowling defense ready to tear him apart. But he’s not scared. He’s seen this all before. The rookie knows exactly what coverage the defense is in and what they’ll try to do next. He’s gone through this specific scenario hundreds of times.

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Astronomer captures image of the huge mile-wide asteroid (safely) passing Earth

Mashable VR

Congress has directed NASA to find 90 percent of the near-Earth objects 460 feet (140 meters) wide or larger, though even a rock some 100 to 170 feet across can devastate a place like Kansas City.

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LiveLike Adds DVR-Like Replay To Live VR Broadcasts

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In addition to the replay feature, LiveLike will be introducing highlights that include 360-degree footage from previous events like the UFC faceoff between Ronda Rousey and Amanda Nunes, and the campus view during the Kansas State vs Stanford college football game. We’re at an early point in the expansion of the virtual reality industry where a lot of “firsts” will be claimed as companies blaze their own paths toward prominence.

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Google Doodle honors the legacy of Black baseball legend Toni Stone

Mashable VR

The Doodle represents her status as a pioneer in the sport, and was created in consultation with Stone's family, including her nieces and nephews, as well as the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum of Kansas City, Missouri.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

Road to VR

Released in an August 12th update, Google has added a new menu function that lets you activate Monday’s total solar eclipse, which can be seen as it passed through 14 US states: Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

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Oculus Venues Arrives for Oculus Go and Gear VR

VRScout

June 27 // MLB: Kansas City Royals @ Milwaukee Brewers // 11:10 am PT. Your ticket to live social events in VR is here. You can now watch live concerts, sports, and comedy shows with friends in VR. A month after the launch of Oculus’ $200 standalone VR headset, Oculus Go, the long teased Oculus Venues app is finally available for download. Available on both Oculus Go and Gear VR, Oculus Venues attempts to bring the stadium fan experience to VR.

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Do you know about VR in the healthcare industry? We introduce case and effect of use.

InstaVR

Emporia State University – Crime scene VR for forensic students Emporia State University has partnered with the Kansas Investigator to create a forensic student VR app using InstaVR. Customer Stories: How a Kansas University Uses InstaVR to Publish Cross-Platform Apps Quickly & Easily for their History, Forensic Science, and Business Classes. You might be unfamiliar with this. Virtual Reality (VR) is also used in the healthcare sector.

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‘Oculus Venues’ Live Event App Now Available on Go and Gear VR, Event Schedule Here

Road to VR

June 27 // MLB: Kansas City Royals @ Milwaukee Brewers // 11:10 am PT. Oculus Venues , the social app that allows ‘thousands of users’ to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. The company has also published a full list of upcoming live events (below).

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Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?

Robert Scoble

One guy in Kansas told me “I’m a narcissistic control freak and there’s no way a computer is going to drive me around.” ” Almost everyone, including that guy in Kansas, said “yeah, I don’t have a problem with what it does when I’m not in the car.”

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