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You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan

ARPost

The University of Michigan has an ambitious XR program that is both incorporating extended reality into education within the University and trying to create the next generation of creators through education and outreach. The University of Michigan’s XR Innovation.

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AR Sports Game Allows Children Of All Abilities To Compete On A Level Playing Field

VRScout

A team of researchers led by Roland Graf, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Image Credit: Michigan Photography. Image Credit: Michigan Photography. Professor Roland Graf / Image Credit: Michigan Photography. Image Credit: Michigan Photography.

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Autonomous vehicles set to get their own special roads in Michigan

Digital Trends

Michigan wants to build special roads for exclusive use by autonomous vehicles. Cars News autonomous cars Autonomous vehicles breaking twitter cavnue Michigan self-driving cars

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Meteorite That Crashed Into Michigan Contains 'Pristine' Organic Compounds

GizModo VR

The rapid recovery and analysis of a meteorite that fell onto a frozen lake in Michigan two years ago is illuminating the pivotal role these rocks played in delivering the basic building blocks for life to Earth.

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Michigan Will Pay $600 Million to Flint Water Crisis Survivors

GizModo VR

The state of Michigan is dishing out $600 million in settlement dollars for victims of the water crisis that exposed the city of nearly 100,000 to unhealthy levels of lead in their drinking water. The people of Flint are finally getting some justice.

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A Nasty Pipeline Showdown Is Brewing Today in Michigan, and Canada Is Pissed

GizModo VR

Seizing the profits of a major oil company, making Canadians angry, tugboats causing havoc: It’s all happening in Michigan right now.

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A Huge Flu Outbreak in Michigan May Be a Sign of Things to Come This Winter

GizModo VR

An outbreak of flu at the University of Michigan has sickened more than 500 people since early October. Local health officials have now brought in help from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate the matter, which may offer a preview of the flu season this winter.

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EON Reality and Baker College to Bring First EON-XR Rollout to Michigan

EonReality

EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announces a new partnership with Michigan’s Baker College to launch a brand new EON-XR rollout. Press Release eon xr michigan

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8 Inventive Examples Of Immersive Technology In Education

VRScout

For example, the University of Michigan Football program has created a VR tour that allows students to experience what it would be like to play at their university’s stadium.

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University of Michigan to launch interdisciplinary VR program

VRWorld

The University of Michigan this week announced plans to launch an augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AVMR) graduate certificate. We’ve got an entertainment venue, Michigan Stadium, where we can play to live audiences of 100,000 seven times a year ,” said Thomas A. Finholt, dean of the School of Information, University of Michigan. “ The post University of Michigan to launch interdisciplinary VR program appeared first on VR World.

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University Of Michigan Deploys Augmented Reality System To Aid Testing Of Automated Vehicles via.

AllThingsVR

University Of Michigan Deploys Augmented Reality System To Aid Testing Of Automated Vehicles via @Forbes [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 23, 2017. virtual reality augmented reality vr ar

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Around 1:26 Rudy Giuliani Farts

GizModo VR

If it pleases the court, I submit evidence that on December 2nd, while giving testimony at a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing, Rudolph William Louis Giuliani farted multiple times. election 2020 rudy giuliani michigan fart farts house oversight committee

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FOX Sports will offer the Michigan State vs Notre Dame game in social VR

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FOX Sports has announced plans to broadcast the Michigan State vs Notre Dame football game in virtual reality, giving fans a very immersive way to enjoy the upcoming game airing on September 23. FOX is calling this a ‘social virtual reality’ experience, saying it will be available through the FOX Sports VR app available for Android, iOS, and Gear VR/Oculus. … Continue reading. Archive Fox sports virtual reality vr

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13,000-Year-Old Tusk Reveals Life of 'Fred,' a Mastodon Who Died in Battle

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fred tusk mammals daniel fisher hiscock site joshua miller animals biology elephant paleontology in michigan mastodonsResearchers have detailed the life and grisly death of a male mastodon that died 13,200 years ago by scrutinizing the chemical composition of one of its tusks.

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Giant Camels and More Treasures Discovered in Fossilized California Forest

GizModo VR

environment fossil organisms mastodon russell shapiro paleontology in michigan pleistocene extinctions petrified wood greg francek branches of biology gomphothere biologyFirst, the trees came out of the ground. A few weeks later, the bones emerged.

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An Animal Friendship Thought to Have Ended 250 Million Years Ago Is Still Flourishing Off the Coast of Japan

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zapalski environment organisms animals of devonian michigan anthozoa t rex crinoid physical geography coral sea urchin branches of biologyOff the southwest coast of Japan, a group of animals has been coexisting in a close relationship that researchers thought didn’t exist in the modern age.

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This Solar Crypto Mine Plan Is Stranger Than Fiction

GizModo VR

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This Solar Crypto Mine Plan Is Stranger Than Fiction

GizModo VR

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How One Man Turned The Busiest International Border Crossing In North America Into The Centerpiece Of His Empire

GizModo VR

detroit michigan central station bridges infrastructureManuel “Matty” Moroun died on Monday at 93 years old.

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Joe Biden Touts Endorsement From the Guy Who Poisoned Flint, Michigan

GizModo VR

Joe Biden can, once again , f**k off.

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No, There Isn't a ‘Glitch’ in Michigan Election Software That Flipped Thousands of Trump Votes

GizModo VR

2020 election trump trump administration voting voting machines voting infrastructure michiganDispelling every b t election conspiracy that’s inundated the internet this week would be a full-time job in and of itself, but one particularly insidious theory has blown up to such a ridiculous degree that it deserves to be set straight. Read more.

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Michigan Republicans Want to Legally Protect Their 'Right to Be Wrong Without Being Told So'

GizModo VR

Republicans! They just love their live-action role-playing, don’t they folks. They’re still questing to find the magic law that will stop the nefarious Silicon Valley leftists and antifa journalists from censoring the land of Real America. The latest proposal?

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The Knight Foundation launches $750,000 initiative for immersive technology for the arts

TechCrunch VR

Smart Label Initiative – Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Project lead: Brian Kirschensteiner | East Lansing, Michigan | @msubroad. TC Amazon arkansas articles augmented reality augmented reality technology california knight foundation Marketing massachusetts Massachusetts Institute of Technology michigan Microsoft mixed reality New York Ohio rhode island San Francisco Santa Cruz smartphone Smithsonian Vice President Virtual realityThe John S.

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Meditative breathing and VR combo reduces pain without drugs

Slashgear

Researchers at the University of Michigan have combined the ancient tradition of meditative breathing with modern technology, namely a virtual reality headset.

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GigXR Continues Content Rollouts and Partnerships

ARPost

The partnership added the Insight Series by ANIMA RES content to their library, which already hosted content from Pearson, Microsoft, and medical universities like Cambridge and the University of Michigan.

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Disaster Fatigue Is Real—and the Coronavirus Could Make It Worse

GizModo VR

Rains overwhelmed unmaintained dams in Michigan. Hurricane season has begun with a roar. The West is threatened by wildfires. Arizona is blanketed in a heat wave. At the same time, we are living through a combined health, political, economic, racial, and climate crisis. Read more.

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Trump's Favorite Covid Adviser: We're Really Not Doing Enough to Collaborate With the Virus

GizModo VR

The Trump administration’s pseudoscience advocate on the White House coronavirus task force, Dr. Scott Atlas, is urging the population of Michigan to, uh, stage some sort of rebellion in solidarity with the novel coronavirus.

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Would You Eat a Windmill? These Scientists Hope So.

GizModo VR

That poses an obviously large problem given their size, but researchers at Michigan State University are working on a novel solution: a newly developed… Read more.

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A 'Fast-Moving' E. Coli Outbreak Is Hospitalizing People in the Midwest, CDC Warns

GizModo VR

At least 29 people in Michigan and Ohio have been sickened by the same strain, while nine have been hospitalized, but more cases may emerge. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is raising alarm over what it describes as a “fast-moving” outbreak of Escherichia coli bacteria.

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Uber Sued for Failing to Deactivate Mass Shooter Prior to Kalamazoo Rampage

GizModo VR

A passenger who rode with Jason Dalton—the Uber driver convicted of a 2016 shooting spree in Kalamazoo, Michigan—is suing Uber for allegedly misrepresenting its safety protocols and failing to provide an incident report service.

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Magic Leap & AT&T Team Up to Bring Fans 'Fantastic Beasts' AR Movie Experience in Chicago

Next Reality AR

Don't Miss: The 5 Most Innovative Augmented Reality Products of 2018 The special experience, which is only available to the public at AT&T's Michigan Avenue store in Chicago, was revealed by Magic Leap on Sunday via Twitter. Despite less than glowing reviews from critics, the latest installment from the Harry Potter spinoff movie series, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, is winning at the box office.

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VRARA Holds Annual Education Forum

ARPost

Retention can be improved when focus is improved, which headsets can also help with, according to Esther Tang, a graduate student in UX studying XR at the University of Michigan. “[In See Also: You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan.

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Ohio University Launches Virtual Reality and Game Development Major

ARPost

See Also: You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan. If you want to build a career in immersive technologies , you can start by getting your degree in this field.

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Biden Launches Federal Probe Into International Ransomware Attack That Hit 1,000+ Companies

GizModo VR

intelligence agencies to investigate the sophisticated ransomware attack that has ensnared more than 1,000 companies worldwide, he told reporters on Saturday during a trip to Michigan to promote his infrastructure package. President Joe Biden has ordered U.S.

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An Oil Spill Shut Down a Great Lakes Shipping Route, but You Probably Didn't Hear About It

GizModo VR

Mary’s River at the Ontario, Canada-Michigan border halted boat traffic between Lake Superior and Lake Huron for about three hours. On Thursday afternoon, an oil spill into the St.

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A Woman's Tragic Covid-19 Death Traced to Tainted Donated Lungs, Report Finds

GizModo VR

Doctors say that a Michigan woman’s untimely death last fall was caused by covid-19 unknowingly spread through a double lung transplant. It’s likely the first clear case of covid-19 linked to transplantation. Another doctor contracted the viral illness through the procedure, but survived.

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New Research Exposes Weird Tsunamis Caused by Gravity Waves

GizModo VR

On April 13, 2018, a huge swell of water broke on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. It was a tsunami, one far from any fault line typically associated with the ginormous waves. This was a meteotsunami, a wall of water forged from the air conditions above it. Read more.