GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

An unusually powerful volcanic eruption in 43 BCE has been linked to political upheaval on the other side of the globe, including the fall of the Roman Republic and the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Read more.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 15, 2022

On-trend with 2019's Joker , director/co-writer Matt Reeves' Gotham aims to be the darkest and grittiest of them yet by drawing on the grim politics of today. Then toward the end, the Riddler summons now-familiar images of mass shootings, white male privilege, Qanon-style social media conspiracies, and white nationalist political terrorism.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 1, 2020

You’d be excused for not following the recent brouhaha associated with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s announcement that the company would no longer play politics. The statement, posted to Medium on Sunday, is a doozy. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 12, 2021

The UK’s conservative government will ban technology companies from “discriminating” against particular political viewpoints, according to a press release about the country’s new proposed Online Safety Bill. The anti-censorship clause is just a minor part of a much larger draft bill, but will likely get attention from… Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The government of Vietnam is threatening to shut down Facebook within the entire country over the social media company’s refusal to censor more local political content, according to a new report from Reuters. Facebook had previously censored some political speech on the platform to appease the Vietnamese government,… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 5, 2021

How many apps can you name that offer both an avenue to send unsolicited dick pics and a pathway to achieve your political dreams? Unless you’re the disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner , the answer to that question is probably “one,” after Snapchat announced a new feature on Tuesday designed to help… Read more.

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Voices of VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

John Robb has a concept of Networked Tribalism, which is a result of the combination of filter bubbles, AI algorithms, and political polarization. Robb is.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 12, 2022

Because if nothing else, the "elephant" was born a political animal. For at least the next 10 years, the SLS program is politically very, very secure, absent some sort of catastrophic failure,'' Casey Dreier, senior space policy adviser for the nonpartisan Planetary Society , told Mashable. Tweet may have been deleted.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Facebook will temporarily disable all ads focused on political and social issues after polls close on Election Day as part of an effort to “reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse,” it said Wednesday. Read more.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Far Cry 6 will have a political story after all, though it will not take any specific political stances on Cuba, according to the game's narrative director.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Politics and social activism has become a deal breaker in online dating.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Streaming services are the 'Wild West' for political ads, report finds.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2023

You might need to favor a certain political party, jazz up otherwise banal segments with populistic controversy, or even turn in your family member to an increasingly authoritarian government.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Taking place as an unofficial event during the SXSW 2017 festival on March 11th, this year’s event will question the impact of social and political change on the AR/VR industry. The post ‘AR/VR Austin’ 2017 to Explore Political Climate & its Impact on the VR/AR Industry appeared first on Road to VR.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 31, 2021

Far Cry 6 delivers political farce instead of satire, and that's an important distinction.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

While Road to VR doesn’t cover politics, backlash among Oculus’ developers and community has brought the issue into the VR realm. I'm dropping Oculus support from Tower Underworld Online V due to Palmer Luckey's politics. If you're not familiar with TUOV, ask me.

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GizModo VR

JULY 14, 2022

Fantasy, especially secondary world fantasy , is a genre about imagination, creating new worlds with different views of everything from culture to economics to the limits of physics, and in many respects, presuming no limitations at all. In that imagining (to paraphrase Max Gladstone ), it implies a critique , a… Read more.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 17, 2022

We see how three different women — Michelle Obama (Davis), Betty Ford (Pfeiffer), and Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson) — inhabited the role and influenced American politics. But in splitting our time between the three of them, we lose the depth of their individual stories. That's a real shame, and the show's biggest failure.

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GizModo VR

JULY 27, 2022

The House of Mouse and its squeaky little underling Hulu have caved to Democrats’ pressure, saying they’ll be changing their ad policies so candidates can touch on issues like abortion, climate change, and the Jan. 6 insurrection, you know, just a few things voters might actually care about. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 16, 2022

As Inu-Oh rocks theaters, I keep thinking about Tomona Dan-No-Ura, whose narrative ostensibly begins and ends the film. As he passes through all the stages of his life, becoming Tomoichi when he joins the Biwa priests and then Tomoari when he begins his own musical theater sect, his art becomes intimately tied to his… Read more.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

We were in different states and divisions, and I was largely out of the political loop, but when I became aware of the situation I should have made a clear and open statement of opposition to the witch hunt.” presidential election, Luckey’s comments and political interests became the subject of a bombshell article in The Daily Beast.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2024

Oculus was founded by Palmer Luckey, who was a prominent voice in the XR industry before ultimately being pushed out of Facebook over divisive politics. What eventually became the ‘Quest’ headset and ‘Horizon OS’ platform from Meta started when the company bought a VR startup called Oculus back in 2014.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has made some incredibly well-regarded films like Delicatessan, The City of Lost Children, and Amélie (and he also directed Alien: Resurrection , about which the less said the better), but it’s been nearly a decade since he last wrote and directed a movie. That will change this… Read more.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Rust LTD is composed of four avant-garde artists who are experimenting with political philosophy as game design through surrealist narratives and open world sandboxes of.

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GizModo VR

JULY 23, 2022

Texas is on a roll—an energy use roll, that is. This week, amid sweltering temperatures, the power demand on the state’s grid soared to an all-time high on Wednesday , reaching 80,000 megawatts of demand. This marks the eleventh time this demand record has been broken this year alone. Read more.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 28, 2018

VRLA co-founder Cosmo Scharf talks about some of the deepest levels of our current socio-political and economic context, and how VR & AR can teach.

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ARPost

MAY 26, 2022

I can’t remember a period in my lifetime where the political and social conversation was more polarized. In an op-ed, Derek Robertson writes that town halls held in the metaverse have the ability not only to connect people more easily to the political process, but to actually improve the political discourse.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 13, 2022

The Commonwealth ’s Lance Hornsby is a man with a plan. A very devious plan. A plan that will very likely prove deadly to others. But, above all, it is a very, very silly plan, and I am here for it. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 10, 2020

The move is reportedly in response to the spread of misinformation and voter suppression on the platform.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 15, 2022

When we are first introduced to Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) in Crimes of the Future , he’s laid up in a bed that looks like a fleshy, rotting orchid, in extreme discomfort. He’s informed that a new hormone has entered his system, a biological measurement of the internal change that he’s experiencing. In our very… Read more.

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ARPost

MAY 13, 2020

Michael Bloomberg’s self-funded run for president raised a lot of questions about what money should and shouldn’t buy you in political races. We designed this experience to contextualize the money that is spent in politics with the impact it could have if spent elsewhere,” Long told ARPost.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2019

“With the adoption of new technologies, such as deepfake, in online video and audio industries, there have been risks in using such content to disrupt social order and violate people’s interests, creating political risks and bringing a negative impact to national security and social stability,” said the CAC on Friday.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 15, 2022

Soil scientist Rose Abramoff has long tried to be “apolitical,” she says, in her efforts to educate people about climate change: She’s supported efforts at non-profits and fact-checked materials for organizations, for example, alongside writing her own reports on the climate crisis. But not anymore. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2021

Omega is safe , but the galaxy is still in turmoil. What’s a group of enhanced clones to do? The latest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch s ent Clone Force 99 on yet another side mission, one that reminded us where the galaxy has been, where it is now, and that the Bad Batch are the right heroes for the moment. Read more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 8, 2023

Moreover, Cambridge Analytica became embroiled in various political controversies by selling voter data to high-stack political campaigns. Meta denied any wrongdoing during the hearing. However, the firm chose to settle with a multi-million dollar price tag.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 8, 2022

You’ve likely heard of the House Republican Congress and the Congressional Black Caucus, but what about a caucus geared specifically for self-driving vehicles? A pair of bipartisan House representatives are advocating for a new group, called the Congressional Autonomous Vehicle Caucus, which they hope could… Read more.

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Mashable VR

MAY 19, 2022

Former boy-bander Harry Styles' third solo album, Harry’s House, had a break in. The full album leaked almost a month ahead of its May 20 release date, and fans had a tumultuous response — one side called the cops, the other threw a rager. It's not necessarily breaking news.

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