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

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This week, Oregon health officials reported a hospital outbreak of the hardy fungus known as Candida auris. A hard-to-kill, occasionally deadly fungus has once again popped up in a U.S. auris infections remain rare in the U.S., its presence seems to be growing, with these being the first ever… Read more.

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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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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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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Police in Oregon are trying to solve some recent fatal poisonings among the already-fragile gray wolf population. Authorities believe that at least eight wolves have been killed by poison this year, including five from a single pack. They’re now calling for any potential tips from the public, while conservation groups… Read more.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Double-blind trials conducted by researchers at Jaguar Land Rover have so far yielded positive results, with Keith Maher, CEO & Founder of Oregon-based company VR Motion , already using the device in conjunction with the companies VR training simulations. . Image Credit: Otolith Labs.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 2, 2023

Intel has filed a permit application that outlines significant expansion plans for its campus near Hillsboro, Oregon. Meanwhile, if the scale is comparable to previous Oregon expansions, the total investment could reach billions. Intel is the largest corporate employer in Oregon, with 22,000 workers.

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

But recently, at Intel’s campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, Becker added another big experience to his life: VR. He flew C-46 Commando transport planes in WWII, spent a quarter-century as a commercial pilot and flight instructor, later worked as an air traffic controller—and along the way had six children with his wife of 70 years.

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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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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2017

Released in an August 12th update, Google has added a new menu function that lets you activate Monday’s total solar eclipse, which can be seen as it passed through 14 US states: Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

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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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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

DECEMBER 4, 2018

North Carolina isn’t the only university trying to encourage future students with VR, The University of Oregon sent out VR cardboard goggles to all its accepted undergraduate students to entice students to check out the college’s own VR tour. That will really help us get our students connected to college.”.

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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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Tech Trends VR

MAY 31, 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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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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VRScout

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Ever since, the Portland-based startup has been working from their Oregon base with a range of enterprise customers in industries such as Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Automotive and Energy & Utilities. They became one of the first teams to join Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Partner Program.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Those were some of the questions I got to explore during a recent visit to the University of Oregon. How can we use technology to tell compelling and worthwhile stories, engage audiences, and make a living in the bargain? Fellow Brit Damian Radcliffe, who is the Carolyn S. Damian Radcliffe (@damianradcliffe) February 4, 2019.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2017

Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico.

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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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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

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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AR Insider

MARCH 31, 2021

Starting with a trial at Fred Myer supermarkets in Portland Oregon, they’ll know your estimated ETA, so they can time their order preparation accordingly. It will even suggest when you should leave your house to get there on time. On the store-end, retailers will also get this data. Weather and Eco Layers.

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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

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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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2017

The campaign’s concept was outlined by StressLevelZero founder Brandon J Laatsch in a news entry on the game’s Steam page in March , saying it would be familiar to anyone who played the classic Oregon Trail series. You start each run by loading up a junker with supplies.

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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 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

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

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

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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