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Missouri Governor Ramps Up Attack on Newspaper Over 'Hacking' Scandal

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Missouri Prosecutor Ignores Governor’s Call to Go After Journalist for ‘Hacking’

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Missouri's Governor Says Kids Will Get Coronavirus In School, Deal With It

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schools covid 19 coronavirus sars cov 2 mike parson missouri californiaWhile school districts across the nation are deciding if they want to return to in-person or distance learning in the fall, it seems like politicians remain decidedly split on the matter.

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Missouri Ditches Covid-19 Measures After Court Ruling, Cease-And-Desist from Attorney General

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Multiple health departments in Missouri have abandoned most or all of their covid-19 tracking and prevention work after a recent court ruling stripped state and local public health agencies of their powers to establish disease prevention measures.

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Missouri Governor Wants to Prosecute Journalist for Warning That State Left Teachers' Data Exposed

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St. Louis Mayor Says Sorry for Doxing Protesters During Livestreamed Q&A

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These University Courses Are Teaching Students the Skills to Work in VR

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State-of-the art facilities such as those offered at Full Sail’s “FabLab” or the University of Missouri’s iLab – which currently offers Virtual Reality-related modules as part of its IT program – are certainly desirable, but perhaps more important is an institution’s ability to support the student in building an extremely diverse and ever-evolving skillset, as well as encouraging a collaborative mentality. Tagged with: Full Sail , iLab , University of Missouri.

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Virtual Aquarium Brings Children’s Aquatic Art To Life

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Visitors can design custom sea creatures and feed their digital creations. Next-generation art collective teamLab is on a mission to blend the worlds of technology, art, science, design, and nature.

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Read the Fine-Print on Verizon's New 4G Home Internet

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Verizon announced today that it has launched a brand new 4G LTE home internet option for residents in parts of Savannah, Georgia, Springfield, Missouri, and the Tri-Cities of both Tennessee and Virginia.

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Researchers Made This Medical Wearable Out of Pencil and Paper

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While smartwatches and fitness trackers are probably the most well-known consumer tech for health monitoring, researchers from the University of Missouri published a study showing they can do the same thing.

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Republican Lawmaker Indicted For Allegedly Selling Bogus Covid-19 Treatments

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Republican state lawmaker Tricia Derges of Missouri was indicted by a federal grand jury on Monday after allegedly selling bogus treatments for covid-19, making promises to treat painful conditions with ineffective therapies, and lying to federal investigators.

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Wannabe Assassin Gets 12 Years on Chemical Weapon Charges for Trying to Buy Dimethylmercury

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A federal court has sentenced a Missouri man who tried to buy the deadly poison dimethylmercury, a notoriously toxic substance that can kill in just a few drops on the skin, on the dark web to 12 years in prison.

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Johnson & Johnson Forced to Pay $2.1 Billion in Baby Powder Cancer Case After Supreme Court Denial

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billion verdict from a 2018 trial in Missouri involving women who… Read more. Johnson & Johnson will not be getting out of its obligation to pay up for losing a civil court case over its baby powder products that allegedly contained asbestos.

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“War Remains” Provides Immersive Experience of World War I

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MWM Interactive gifted the War Remains location-based experience to the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.

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

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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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Remote-controlled mobile vending machine comes to you

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The company behind other remote-controlled devices unveiled the concept Friday with plans to roll out in NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, San Diego, Santa Cruz, CA, and South Carolina and Missouri, along with London in the coming months.

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

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Tim Bartow is a filmmaker and writer hailing from Kansas City, Missouri. Despite the limitations of his body, now he can use VR to see the world. As one of only 100 Americans affected by the extremely rare genetic disorder Lesch Nyhan, which results in celebral palsy, Tim uses a wheelchair. Though Tim has no cognitive impairments, people often assume that he is mentally challenged. They treat me like a child when they see the chair,” he said.

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How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare

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Louis, Missouri. With the COVID-19 epidemic becoming the world’s most pressing issue, emerging technologies, especially technologies related to augmented reality and virtual reality ( AR / VR ), have become more and more instrumental in helping combat the challenges related to the disease.

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This Restaurant Will Let You Paint With Sauces in VR

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19 – Tennessee vs. Missouri. Zaxby’s is taking an interactive HTC VIVE experience on tour to tailgaters across the country. With over 700 locations across 17 states, quick service chicken restaurant Zaxby’s is giving college football fans a taste of something new while tailgating this season. The “Zaxby’s Fanz of Flavor” tour is hitting the road with a full-sized wooden barn where you can get your hands on the HTC VIVE and a few custom interactive VR experiences.

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Alaska Airlines Begins Testing VR As First Class Entertainment

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To support their exploration of VR entertainment through SkyLights Allosky VR headset, Alaska Airlines turned to a catalog of entertainment from Hollywood partners to offer films including the Academy Award winning “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” , Steven Spielberg’s adaption of Ernest Cline’s novel “ Ready Player One ” , and the family-friendly animated picture, “Ferdinand”. Alaska Airlines new VR theater experience could make you forget you are on an airplane.

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Our favorite TikTok cat, Pot Roast, has died

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Pot Roast’s mom found Pot Roast in 2014 during her sophomore year at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. An unproblematic cat queen died today, after being recently diagnosed with FIV.

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AR Meditation App Helps Calm Veterans Suffering From Trauma

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She had, up until that point, spent a majority of her journalistic career reporting one violent event after the other, and the depressing subject matter of her coverage was beginning to take its toll on the Missouri native. “I Healium AR’s use of neurofeedback technology could revolutionize anxiety management. After nearly 20 years of hard reporting, television journalist Sarah Hill was at the end of her rope.

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NextVR Brings Its Live Streamed Events to Oculus Quest

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Sunday, 9/29 | Paranormal Evidence: Missouri State Penitentiary | 6pm PT. NextVR, the VR livestreaming event app, is now available on Oculus Quest for free, which is said to come alongside a new technology that promises clearer and sharper video rendering. The studio calls the new rendering technology ‘PAVE’, which is said to enable new features like enhanced in-experience graphic overlays (e.g.

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Red States Go to War Against Math

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Twelve Republican attorneys general, led by Missouri’s attorney general, filed a dramatic lawsuit against the Biden administration on Monday challenging what is, essentially, a complex math equation that has been in place for years. Conservatives have a new climate political football.

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Google Doodle honors the legacy of Black baseball legend Toni Stone

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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

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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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Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada

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Missouri. Haven’t been able to make it to any of the big gaming expos (or you don’t know anyone with the $3,000 AR headset)? Microsoft Stores across the US and Canada are now hosting free HoloLens demos, so you can finally see what the hubbub is all about.

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Seattle Startup Viar360 Coming Out To Public with an Immersive Journalism Platform

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Viar360 is already being used in 12 top American Journalistic Schools such as Syracuse University , University of Kentucky , Penn State University , Michigan State University , University of Missouri , San Jose State University and others. Virtual Reality and 360˚ video have already stepped into our lives and by now there are a couple of big players who are utilizing the power of this medium.

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Dog anxiety is real. These products can help calm your anxious pet.

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Anxiety is common, and often dogs with it exhibit a wide range of symptoms and severity," said Dr. Travis Arndt , medical director at the Animal Medical Center of Mid-America in Missouri. Dogs can be one of the best natural remedies for anxiety in humans.

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Abortion funds and reproductive justice networks need our help

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Missouri Abortion Fund This fund provides public education and support for those in Missouri seeking reproductive health care, including financial assistance for people seeking abortions. On May 2, a U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion draft discussing the overruling of Roe v.

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EON Reality Presents at Nordic VR Forum

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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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Honor Everywhere-a 360° Memorial Day video from Jaunt

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This virtual “Honor Flight” was made possible through donations by Veterans United Foundation, Jaunt, Google, Central Missouri Honor Flight, Ghost Machine and Story Up Studios. Cinematic virtual reality represents a totally new medium that instantly gives the viewer a sense of being transported to an entirely different location, as if they were actually there. Many ailing and disabled Veterans are physically unable to visit memorials made in their honor.

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Adding Virtual Reality To a Roller Coaster

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The Six Flags amusement park will debut nine virtual reality roller coasters at its parks in Texas, Georgia, California, Missouri, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York and Montreal this spring. There’s a surprising factor getting developed for the roller coaster riders in North America. So, all the roller coaster riders out there, buckle up! The amusement park Six Flags has come up with the VR technology in their roller coaster rides for their riders and this will be the first of their kind.

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Smart Nations Powered By Augmented Virtual Reality

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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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9 of the best moments in Black Twitter history

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Twitter, and its now-defunct service Vine , served as a clearinghouse and platform for video evidence during the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri after police killed a teenager named Mike Brown. UPDATE: Jun. 19, 2022, 1:25 p.m. EDT This story has been updated for clarity and sensitivity.

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Scale Learning and Teaching for the Online Classroom

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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

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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).