GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Almost exactly a month before Texas plunged into darkness , a panel convened in Austin to host a discussion about the superiority of the Texan electric grid. Called “Keep the Lights and Ventilators On: The Future of Texas’ Grid Reliability,” the panel was part of an annual conference held by the Texas Public Policy… Read more.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

On Tuesday, Reuters reported that The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) predicted this week that the system will see peak highs in energy use this week, topping out at a possible 74,034 megawatts on Wednesday. It’s not super likely that consumers will see problems—but given the state of the grid and the… Read more.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Tobe Hooper’s 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a horror masterpiece. His 1986 Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a horror comedy masterpiece. With another Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot due next year, we decided it was time to sift through the bones and revisit the rest. The rest of the series ain’t so great. Are they… Read more.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Folks across Texas are receiving outrageous energy bills in the wake of widespread utility shutoffs during last week’s cold snap. Thankfully, state officials issued some stopgap measures on Sunday to protect them from those ridiculous financial burdens. Read more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2025

.” Tender Claws hasn’t revealed whether it’s releasing Face Jumping beyond the experience’s debut at SXSW, which will be open to badge holders on March 9th – 11th in Austin, Texas. We’ve reached out to the studio to clarify this, and will update this piece when/if we know more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 4, 2021

Griddy, the Texas power supplier that’s made headlines recently for customers’ sky-high energy bills in the wake of widespread winter storm outages , has racked up another lawsuit. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the company for “false, misleading, and deceptive advertising and marketing practices” that he… Read more.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Everything’s bigger in Texas—including problems with its electric grid and energy demand for bitcoin. A new analysis shows that the electric grid is just as vulnerable to crisis as it was before February’s blackouts just as the state is gearing up to welcome cryptocurrency operations that will add an enormous amount… Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Among all of the antitrust probes facing Google right now, the case dropped on Wednesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stands out for a few reasons. First, it focuses on the tech giant’s dominance in digital ads, rather than focusing on search the way that the Justice Department and more than 30 states have in… Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As the crisis of rolling blackouts in Texas unfolds this week, some of the state’s loudest Republican politicians are falsely dragging “frozen wind turbines” as the cause. But behind every wind energy smear by a Texas politician is a dizzying amount of money contributed by the fossil fuel industry. Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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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GizModo VR

MARCH 12, 2021

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), which oversees the Texas Highway Patrol and the state’s (in)famous Texas Ranger Division , said this week it has finally halted the discredited hypnosis techniques it used to provide evidence in criminal investigations since at least the start of the 1980s. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he will make Texas the number one state for bitcoin. What’s more, he espoused the wonders of crypto mining as a way to prop up the state’s flailing electrical grid , a view Cancun-loving Sen. Ted Cruz also shared at a bitcoin mining conference last week. It’s a seductive story:… Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Noted tax-lover Elon Musk is the latest entrant in Texas’ Wild West energy market. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is now officially licensed to sell electricity to retail customers in the state through a company called Tesla Energy Ventures. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is reportedly gearing up to permanently decamp to Texas in an effort to take advantage of the Lone Star State’s lack of personal income taxes. Read more.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

San Antonio, Texas (8923 W Military Drive) – March 15-16. New Braunfels, Texas (1209 S Interstate 35) – March 17-19. Grand Prairie, Texas (2225 I-20) – March 22-23. Allen, Texas (730 W Exchange Parkway) – March 24-26. Sugar Land, Texas (345 Highway 6) – March 29-30.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Brought to us by Texas-based developer Playful Studios, this next-gen 3D platformer has you taking control of the titular Lucky Swiftail, a happy-go-lucky fox, and embarking on a daring rescue mission in search of your best friend, Piggy. Lucky’s Tale is the closest you’ll get to Super Mario Bros.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 16, 2021

The Texas Supreme Court temporarily ruled in favor of Gov. Greg Abbott and his ban on mask mandates in the state on Sunday, according to a new report from the Texas Tribune. The ruling comes as Texas struggles with the delta variant of covid-19, which has caused infections to skyrocket in recent weeks, primarily among… Read more.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2024

According to the Meta website , the tour is continuing from New Jersey to Toronto, Canada, and then on to Dallas, Texas. My son, Justin, playing Batman: Arkham Shadow on Quest 3S. Representatives on-site in New Jersey also mentioned a tour stop in Las Vegas, Nevada, though this date has not yet been posted on Meta’s website.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Residents of a town just north of Dallas, Texas were awoken in the middle of a cold night this week to what sounded like a volley of gunshots outside their home. When they finally made their way outdoors, the residents learned those shocking sounds didn’t actually originate from firearms but were rather the result of… Read more.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

As at least seven states push for limits on how school curricula discuss LGBTQ topics and gender and sexuality, Texas Governor Greg Abbott continues adding fuel to the fire with a new political call that jeopardizes the safety of transgender children in his home state. It's unclear how the directive will be enforced in practice.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2024

Texas Instruments (TI) has released the ‘smallest-ever’ DLP controller that can enable interaction on AR smartglasses and 4k ultra high-definition (UHD) projectors. According to the US chips manufacturer Texas Instruments, its new controller can reproduce the experience of premium televisions and gaming monitors using a compact projector.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 21, 2021

A Texas-based conservative think tank is joining fishermen in the North Atlantic to fight an offshore wind farm. That may sound like a mad lib fever dream, but it’s real and it shows how fossil fuel money is everywhere. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 20, 2022

Temperatures are dropping in central and south Texas Thursday through Friday morning as the state sees a cold front that may send temperatures plummeting as low as 18 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-8 degrees Celsius) in the Permian Basin on Thursday. These unusually chilly temperatures come just before the one-year… Read more.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2020

The performance was captured prior to the lockdown and developed in collaboration with Texas-based creative agency CALLEN using the WebAR platform 8th Wall. On stage the five members of Real Estate perform a medley of their original songs. There’s even some light on-stage banter and a final encore.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As the world turns, another Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel arrives, doing its best to recapture the grim, grimy magic wrought by the 1974 horror classic. But the next entry in the series , which arrives on Netflix in February, borrows a page from the current Halloween films by billing itself as a direct sequel to Tobe… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 15, 2021

Don’t worry, helpless fossil fuel companies: Texas is coming to your rescue. Four Republican state senators introduced a bill last week that would prevent the state from doing business with any companies that “boycott” the oil and gas industry. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Texas company allegedly responsible for spilling hundreds of gallons of oil near Huntington Beach, California, in October is facing criminal charges. A federal grand jury indicted Houston-based Amplify Energy Corp. and two of its subsidiaries this week, charging them with a single misdemeanor count of illegally… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 22, 2022

A set of dinosaur tracks were recently found in the aptly named Dinosaur Valley State Park, which is situated in the ‘Dinosaur Capital of Texas,’ also known as Glen Rose, Texas. The city is nicknamed so because 113 million years ago , dinosaurs roamed the area. The proof is in the dinosaur footprints that have been and… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Members of the hacker collective Anonymous claim to have leaked a large cache of data belonging to the Republican Party of Texas. The leak, the size of which is unclear, is said to include the “private documents” of the organization. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 6, 2022

The Attorney General seems to want his new-ish constituent, Elon Musk, to like him so bad, he’ll use all the legal resources of Texas to gain favor. Ken Paxton apparently loves the taste of billionaire boots. Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s been a hard week for everyone living in Texas as blackouts , boil notices , and bone-chilling cold rattle the state. But data shared with Earther shows the suffering maybe be particularly acute for the millions of Texans living near oil wells and refineries. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 2, 2022

The Texas law that seeks to stop companies from being mean to fossil fuels is getting popular—even if its execution and implications are still murky. States across the country are looking at adopting similar bills to one passed in Texas that forbids the state from doing business with any institutions that “boycott”… Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Dan Patrick said that one of his “legislative priorities” for this year is passing a bill to protect the fossil fuel industry, by blacklisting businesses. In a public policy forum on Thursday sponsored by a business group, Patrick said the potential McCarthy-esque rule could be modeled off a disastrous… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 19, 2022

Stop me if you’ve heard this setup before: Temperatures are expected to plummet in Texas as snow and ice descend on the state. Read more.

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VRScout

AUGUST 10, 2020

TERMINUS was originally intended as a touring exhibition; partway through its multi-city tour, however, the outbreak of COVID-19 forced the team to end its run early, cancelling upcoming showings at various major events, such as the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Houston, Texas, a hub for industries ranging from Medicine to Oil & Gas to Aerospace, has been ground-zero for many of the conversations reimagining the scope of what VR and AR can accomplish. The Immersive Technology Conference runs from November 6th-7th at the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas.

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GizModo VR

JULY 12, 2022

Crypto mining operations in Texas are tugging at their collars, now finding a reason to sweat other than the lingering crypto bear market. Temperatures in Texas are expected to go well over 100 degrees this week, and the lone star state’s electricity system kindly asked big energy users to kindly hop off the grid for… Read more.

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