GizModo VR

JULY 10, 2021

A raging wildfire in Oregon has doubled in size to 120 squares miles (roughly 311 square kilometers) within 24 hours and now threatens vital transmission lines that carry power to California’s already beleaguered energy grid, the Associated Press reports. It’s one of dozens of blazes scorching the West Coast amid a… Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

More than 85 wildfires are blazing across the West, but one of the most pressing is in southern Oregon where nearly the entire the 82,000-person town of Medford was evacuated. The horrific western wildfire season is getting even worse. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 13, 2022

So much so that Oregon, a historically temperate state that is seeing rapidly rising temperatures , is creating laws to protect its workers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke. Wildfires are brutal out here. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 31, 2020

I downloaded a Mac OS 8 emulator a few weeks ago—not just because it looked cool, but because I had a serious hankering for some classic Oregon Trail. The app itself is pretty neat. It’s made by the same Slack developer, Felix Rieseberg, who also made a Windows 95 emulator. It’s not a fully functioning Mac OS 8… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Twelve years ago, I strode by Clark Glacier on the flanks of South Sister, the tallest of a cluster of three volcanoes in Oregon’s Cascades. The mass of ice clung to the slopes, strewn with red and brown streaks left behind by volcanic cinders that tumbled across its face. Read more.

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VRScout

MARCH 31, 2020

Developed in collaboration with Oculus VR for Good , Fovrth Studios , and Pride Foundation, the three-part series takes viewers into the homes and lives of three different individuals from Idaho, Montana, and Oregon. “We The stories we tell come from states where LGBTQ communities are rarely depicted in media: Idaho, Montana, and Oregon.”

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They’ve come for a weekly update from Oregon’s Yes on Measure 109 campaign—a measure which would create the world’s first market for psilocybin-assisted therapy. On a sunny September afternoon in Portland, volunteers pour into a Zoom conference room. The pandemic prevents them from knocking on doors to reach voters.… Read more.

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VRScout

MAY 27, 2020

The company, which is based in the small town of Bend, Oregon, quickly partnered with Lane Workforce Partnership and got support from the Facebook Foundation through the East Cascade Workforce Improvement Board. This got the attention of the Oregon COVID-19 task force as they were looking for training solutions during the crisis.

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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in collaboration with Artizen producers Ana Brzezi?ska ska and René J. Pinnell commissioned & produced four VR pieces that premiered at the.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 17, 2021

If you’re freaked out by funerals and would rather be gardening instead, you’re in luck. There are now three states in the U.S. where you can legally compost a dead body. Read more.

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VRScout

APRIL 7, 2022

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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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The Wild , a start-up from Portland, Oregon has just announced an integration with UK-based Igloo Vision to open up new avenues for collaboration and experiential design review for teams working in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC).

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ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

An early presentation in the day saw the University of Oregon professor Donna Davis presenting “Immersion and Ethical Responsibility.” The University of Oregon professor Donna Davis presenting “Immersion and Ethical Responsibility”. For example, how does someone with Parkinson’s navigate gesture controls?

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 13, 2020

Facebook has boldly face-planted right into one of the few remaining types of fuckups it hasn’t before: quietly abandoning a pile of drilling equipment under the ocean. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Oregon has been a hot bed of far-right activity for years, but the wildfires have cast the militias in a new light. Misinformation has been rampant as unprecedented fires lit up the state. False rumors of “antifa” igniting fires and coming to loot people’s homes have raced across Facebook. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

For the second time in as many years, American fascist organization Patriot Front is facing a humiliating leak of internal communications, messages revealing a trove of evidence pointing to coordinated criminal activities in multiple states, including New York, Washington, Indiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Oregon. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 4, 2021

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, suspected that a city contractor was illegally trashing property belonging to people living at an encampment for people experiencing homelessness, so he covertly attached Apple AirTag tracking devices to some of the items. Sure enough, the items ended up in a landfill, and now there may… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 13, 2021

West, new research shows that air pollution from last year’s wildfires California, Washington, and Oregon was associated with an increased risk of contracting and dying from covid-19. Amid a record-breaking fire season in the U.S. Read more.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2022

The car in front of me, explained Varjo’s Chief Technology Officer, Urho Konttori, was being rendered entirely in the cloud on an AWS server in Oregon… a few hundred miles North from where I was standing in Silicon Valley. But this time the headset was plugged into a fairly thin laptop instead of a desktop-class rig.

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VRScout

JUNE 22, 2020

While it’s true Facebook has purchased the entirety of the team, Ready at Dawn will continue to work independently out of its original offices in Irvine, California and Portland, Oregon; the only different being that they now have the full support of both Facebook and Oculus Studios.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 7, 2022

An Oregon man is being hauled off to prison for four years after pulling off a pretty elaborate scam, all in the name of Stonks. The Justice Department announced on Friday that it caught 51-year-old Andrew Lloyd swindling upwards of $3.4 million from multiple federal COVID-19 relief programs , and then using that cash… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 24, 2022

University of Oregon researchers are teaming up with Google to conduct a study on digital wellbeing using the Google Health Studies tool Dr. Nicholas Allen said in a Google blog post today. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

There are now three states—California, Washington state and Oregon—battling raging wildfires, which have left a trail of destruction in their wake and, in some cases, have literally changed the color of the sky. The West Coast is burning, and it’s still not under control. Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The city of Portland, Oregon has unanimously passed an expansive new piece of legislation that bans both the private and public use of facial recognition tech.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Five environmental and human rights groups in Oregon are suing the Department of Homeland Security for its use of tear gas at recent anti-police brutality protests in Portland, saying the agency created “potentially grave health and environmental hazards.” Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 15, 2020

For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our past can be found in piles of human poop, as an important new analysis shows. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Utilities and state agencies in California, Oregon, and Washington announced a plan to transform highway infrastructure that would speed the transition. The West Coast is preparing for a future where giant diesel transport trucks go electric. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2022

If you play video games and own a PlayStation (or a PC ), you may remember Days Gone , a 2019 game from Sony Bend where you played a biker fighting hordes of zombies in Oregon. Even with a mixed reception at launch, the game went on to sell several million copies in its lifetime, but not enough for Sony to approve a… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 27, 2020

29, Oregon Live reports. One of Portland’s most beloved bookworm attractions, Powell’s Books, will stop selling books on Amazon this weekend, Aug. 29 is also Independent Bookstore Day. Fitting, no? Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

It’s safe to say that white America’s general image of police officers has taken a bit of a nosedive. A role that some folks respected more than members of Congress just last year has, in the span of about a month or so, become one that they’re terrified of , if not actively fighting to abolish altogether. And rather… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 14, 2020

Russell Kirsch, the inventor of the pixel and the first person to create a digital photograph, died Tuesday at his home in Portland, Oregon, according to a report from the Washington Post. Kirsch was 91 years old. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 19, 2021

The Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon is the largest in the U.S. The West’s nightmare summer continues to grow worse. and has now overrun more than 300,000 acres. Yet as the fire rages out of control, more dire news is on the horizon: The Forest Service’s budget and firefighting resources are expected to be tapped out… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 15, 2021

On Friday, Oregon governor Kate Brown tweeted that the state won’t be getting additional vaccine shipments as expected next week, because the federal government had shipped out its remaining reserves earlier… Read more. A plan meant to speed up the delivery of covid-19 vaccines to the American public is already facing trouble.

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GizModo VR

MAY 10, 2021

Doctors in Oregon have described what might be one of the unluckiest encounters between man and tick ever documented. They report treating a 70-year-old man who became sick with three entirely different infections after a single tick bite. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

The extremophile bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans was first discovered in 1956 at Oregon State University, where it was busy ruining a gamma ray experiment designed to sterilize a tin of ground meat. The “sterilized” meat spoiled, thanks to D. radiodurans and its preternatural durability in the face of radiation: The… Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The smoke from the fires out West , which has choked residents of California, Washington, and Oregon and painted the skies a haunting orange color, is absolutely everywhere. It’s blown thousands of miles east, and is now clouding up skies as far away as parts of New England, parts of Canada, and even Europe. Yes, you… Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

NVIDIA-Oregon State Supercomputer Facility. The news comes after NVIDIA Chief Executive, Jensen Huang and his wife Lori Huang donated roughly $50 million USD to Oregon State University (OSU) to build a supercomputer research centre amid the ongoing trade war with China. It will reach out to Oregon lawmakers for $75 million.

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