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Viral Image Claiming to Show a Helicopter De-Icing Texas Wind Turbines Is From Winter 2014 in Sweden

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In the midst of a record cold snap where Texas’ grid has failed to meet demand, misinformation is running rampant. Among the most pernicious memes propagating online are that Texas’ wind turbines have frozen and that that has led to the blackout. Read more.

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25 Countries With the Best Covid-19 Vaccination Rates in the World

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IKEA Teams With Meta To Launch An In-Store AR Game

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The experience is available for a limited time in 21 IKEA stores throughout Sweden. Earlier this month, IKEA Retail Sweden launched a new augmented reality (AR) experience at select IKEA stores in Sweden.

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CDC Says Fully Vaccinated People Can Socialize Indoors Unmasked, With a Few Exceptions

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These Airbag Jeans Could Fashionably Protect Motorcyclists

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safety airbags motorcycles gadgets tech consumer tech airbag inside sweden ab pants clothing mocycleStrapping on a leather suit can protect you from a nasty case of road rash should you wipe out on a motorcycle, but that’s about it. For more robust protection during a crash, several companies have been developing airbag technology for motorcycles, including a pair of inflatable jeans designed to protect a rider’s… Read more.

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More Web AR Action Emerges

AR Insider

A Week in WebAR: Nike, LEGO and McDonald’s Sweden. Nike unveils virtual try-on, LEGO Harry Potter lets you open portals; And McDonald’s Sweden replaces real balloons with AR. McDonald’s Sweden Replaces Real Balloons with AR to Reduce Waste.

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Meta Quest 2 & Quest Pro VR Headsets Get Price Cuts

VRScout

Beginning March 5th, 2023, the 256GB Quest 2 will be available for $429.99 (previously $499.99) in the US, Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK.

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EON Reality Unveils 114-Stop World Tour for AVR Platform Launches

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The launches will begin in early February with locations in Sweden, Morocco, Italy, India, Singapore, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Laos before spreading across six continents over the next several months. Ben Guerir Bologna Singapore Sweden

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“Let’s Play ‘IKEA: The AR Experience!'”

VRGames

IKEA Retail Sweden has recently launched a limited-time augmented reality experience for families at 21 selected stores throughout Sweden. The kid-friendly Instagram filter, Lilla Äventyret, was created in collaboration with Meta and Warpin Reality to teach visitors about various sea life through an interactive game based on IKEA’s BLÅVINGAD collection. Players can explore stations set […] Articles

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How VR Was Used To Help Produce A Full-Scale Opera

VRScout

Turandot was co-produced by the FNOB and the Malmö Opera in Sweden. This live production was built from the ground up using immersive technology. XR hardware manufacturer Varjo has partnered with the Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB) to help produce a new opera using VR technology.

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The Norwegian-Swedish Wolf Is Extinct

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The original population of wolves living in Norway and Sweden were wiped out 50 years ago, a report commissioned by the Norwegian parliament has concluded.

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Hands-On: Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs Reinvents the Franchise for Mobile, but Smartglasses Are Its Destiny

Next Reality AR

Along with its AR development partner, Sweden-based Resolution Games, the publisher is following up Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot for the Magic Leap One with a return to its mobile roots in Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs, which arrives on the App Store for ARKit-compatible iPhones and iPads on April 29. Finland-based Rovio, one of the pioneers of mobile gaming, is now ready to break new ground in augmented reality with its Angry Birds franchise.

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Meta Re-lowers Quest 2 Price & Drops Quest Pro to $1,000

Road to VR

Meta says in a blogpost that pricing changes to Meta Quest 2 (256GB) will also update across Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK.

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Arkansas Reports 33 New Covid-19 Patients Placed on Ventilators in Single Day

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Virtual Reality Reimagines Employee Training Through Xelevate

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Emma Ridderstad, the CEO of Sweden-based Warpin , is among the innovators in the third group. Ridderstad, who media describe as the queen of metaverse in her native Sweden, believes that the metaverse “has the potential to be a real equalizer and a force for good.”

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Varjo, Finnish National Opera and Ballet Debut Immersive Opera

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Director Sofia Adrian Jupither leads the Turandot opera, which the FNOB and the Malmö Opera in Sweden helped to co-produce.

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Music Creation Sandbox ‘Virtuoso’ Releasing on Quest & SteamVR in March

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Created by Sweden-based indie Really Interactive , Virtuoso is the first third-party title to be published by Fast Travel Games, the VR veteran behind Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife (2021) and Apex Construct (2018). .

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Storytel's Audiobook Library Is Headed for Spotify Later This Year

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Spotify is partnering with Storytel, a Sweden-based audiobook streaming service, to integrate its library with Spotify’s platform later this year, the companies announced Thursday.

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Covid-19 Raises Risk of Lingering and Serious Blood Clotting, Swedish Study Finds

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New research from Sweden is the latest to show that people who contract covid-19 are then more susceptible to other serious health problems down the road.

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Reality Scan Vs NVIDIA NeRF – Photogrammetry for Developers

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The Uppsala, Sweden-based firm owns the “world’s largest” photogrammetry asset library and offers an XR content creation suite with its Megascans, Bridge, and Mixer toolkits.

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Microsoft to Expand Azure Kinect’s Computer Vision Tech to Commercial Market

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” Microsoft has also recently expanded HoloLens 2’s availability to Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

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Quest 2 Discounted for Limited Time, Includes Free Copy of ‘Resident Evil 4’ & ‘Beat Saber’

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If you’re in Europe, look out for a similar deal at your typical retailers in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.

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Moschino & H&M Harness the Power of Magic Leap One to Intro Augmented Reality to the Fashion World

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Don't Miss: I Met Magic Leap's AI Assistant Mica & Saw the Future of Augmented Reality Compared to some of the other Magic Leap One experiences, this one, developed by Stockholm, Sweden-based Warpin Media, is fairly minimalist. Magic Leap has already entered the realm of entertainment and enterprise, but on now it has blazed its way into a new augmented reality frontier: fashion.

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We're Getting Closer to Electronic Paper That Can Display as Many Colors as an LCD Display

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The trade-off is they look nowhere near as vibrant as display technologies like LCD and OLED, but new research out of Sweden could soon change that with an innovative type of reflective screen.

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Covid-19 Sent a Healthy 40-Year-Old Man Into Life-Threatening Catatonia, Doctors Say

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A man’s encounter with covid-19 likely led to him experiencing life-threatening catatonia that erased days of his memory, according to doctors in Sweden.

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‘Wraith: The Oblivion VR’ Studio Fast Travel Games Raises $4M Investment

Road to VR

Fast Travel Games, the Sweden-based VR developer and publisher behind titles such as Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife (2021) and Apex Construct (2018) , today announced a new investment worth $4 million.

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Waymo unveils design for a robotaxi without a steering wheel

Digital Trends

The all-electric, self-driving minivan will be designed and developed in Gothenburg, Sweden, before being added to Waymo’s […]. Waymo has unveiled a design for a self-driving robotaxi without a steering wheel and pedals.

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Resolution Games Acquires Studio Behind ‘Carly and the Reaperman’ Quest Port

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Founded by Tomas Ahlström and Alexander Milton in 2020, the team has worked to expand the game industry in the region of Östergötland in eastern Sweden.

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‘Puzzling Places’ to Bring its Engrossing 3D Jigsaw Puzzles to PSVR December 14th

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Puzzling Places is set to release on PSVR with five main puzzle packs that span historical sites (and interesting gubbins) in Sweden, Armenia, France, the United States, and Japan.

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Scientists Gave Sober Cows a Drunk Walking Test

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Veterinary researchers in the Netherlands and Sweden made cows walk a straight line, all the while recording their movements through motion sensors.

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Quest Pro Price Cut To $1000 Just 4 Months After Launch

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The 256GB Quest 2 price cut takes effect on Sunday in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.

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PSVR 2 Could Include Tech from the Biggest Name in Eye Tracking

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The Sweden-based firm has partnered with VR headset makers over the years and can be found in a number of devices, such as HTC Vive Pro Eye, HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition, Pico Neo 2 Eye, Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye, and a number of Qualcomm VRDK reference designs.

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Scientists Say You Can Have More Than 150 Friends, If You Want

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Now, a team of researchers in Sweden say that number is bunk.

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Pico to Release ‘Neo 3 Pro’ & ‘Neo 3 Pro Eye’ for Enterprise in Q3 2021, Price & Specs Here

Road to VR

As the name would suggest, its Neo 3 Pro Eye includes sensors for eye tracking; like in Neo 2 Eye, the eye tracking hardware is being provided by Tobii, the Sweden-based company known for integrating its tech into Vive Pro Eye, HP VR Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition , and more.

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VR Film ‘Symphony’ Hopes To Introduce Younger Generations To Classical Music

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” The 12-minute film begins with a silent introduction of three musicians from The Gustavo Dudamel Foundation, an organization co-chaired by Dudamel alongside his wife that focuses on providing support to young musicians from Sweden to Venezuela.

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One of VR’s Leading Developers Opens Publishing Arm Aimed at Small VR Teams

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Fast Travel Games , the Sweden-based VR developer behind Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife (2021) and Apex Construct (2018) , today announced it’s opening a publishing arm which is aimed at helping smaller teams to break into the VR games market.

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Here’s Every Country & Store Where Quest 2 is Officially Being Sold

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Jump to: Australia | Austria | Belgium | Canada | Denmark | Finland | France | Iceland | Ireland | Italy | Japan | Netherlands | New Zealand | Norway | Poland | South Korea | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland | Taiwan | United Kingdom | United States. Where to Buy Oculus Quest 2 in Sweden.