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‘Bigscreen’ Brings Paid Movies to Social VR Platform, Showing Select 2D & 3D Films

Road to VR

This week’s films include 3D versions of Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon (2017) and Ghost in the Shell (2017), and 2D versions of Star Trek (2009) and Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Image courtesy Bigscreen.

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Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Right

ARVR

Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 2. Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video | Hulu Did you know the first virtual reality headset was created over 50 years ago? Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 4.

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The AmazonBasics Aurora Vista 1500 UPS Review: Passable Power

Anand Tech

AmazonBasics is a private label of products owned by Amazon. The subsidiary was founded back in 2009 and initially offered only basic products, such as cables and office consumables. Today, Amazon retails thousands of products under the AmazonBasics label, ranging from paperclips to living room sets.

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

Tech Trends VR

Current industry trends appear to support his statement – such as the shift towards voice search with digital assistants like Cortana from Microsoft, Siri from Apple and Alexa from Amazon. Consumers may one day be talking and gesturing to holographic “ghosts”, while the smartphone becomes a spectre of the past.

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OpenSim active users hit all-time-high for the holidays

Hypergrid Business

The three oldest grids in OpenSim that are still active today are OSgrid , founded in 2007, 3rd Rock Grid , founded in 2008, and AnSky , founded in 2009. You can see all the historical OpenSim statistics here , including polls and surveys, dating all the way back to 2009. The rest can win in-game tokens.

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The Future Of Computing: Supercloud And Sky Computing

Bernard Marr

This means that a business might have service agreements in place with, for example, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Stoika and Shenker were early proponents of the cloud computing paradigm, writing about it as early as 2009.

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Hypergrid hits record high as share of OpenSim users

Hypergrid Business

Help OpenSim by shopping on Amazon. You can now support OpenSim testing and development when you shop at Amazon — at no extra cost to you. OSgrid, a non-profit, has created an Amazon Smile account. So sign up for Amazon Smile for OSgrid , or make a donation directly on OSgrid’s donation page.