GizModo VR

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 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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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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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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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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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

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

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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2024

A former quarterback for Texas Tech himself, the intense realism was clear to Kingsbury from the snap. The Washington Commanders’ offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury is all-in on VR training, something the team’s star quarterback Jayden Daniels credits for accelerating his development, the New York Times reports.

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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 21, 2021

health officials have reported the country’s first death attributed to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus—a man in his 50s from Texas. The man was unvaccinated but had previously survived a covid-19 infection; he also had underlying health conditions. Read more.

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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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GizModo VR

JUNE 1, 2022

Supreme Court put a controversial new Texas law on hold in a 5-4 decision late Tuesday. The law would allow social media users to sue companies like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook if those users felt they were being “censored” online. Read more.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2023

The structure will now appear first at Millennium Park in Chicago on June 17th followed by Houston, Texas on June 24th. The AR-enabled structure was originally scheduled to debut on June 10th in New York City, but the premiere was delayed due to air pollution caused by the ongoing Canadian wildfires.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

12 – Kansas, Texas, and Martinsville. At the time of this writing you can engage in AR races in Darlington, Richmond, Bristol, Las Vegas, Talladega, and the Charlotte Roval, with plenty more still to come: Monday, Oct. Monday, Nov. 2 – Phoenix.

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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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VRScout

JUNE 29, 2020

“I was able to stand next to President Lincoln as he delivered the Gettysburg Address and joined forces at McPherson’s Ridge when the first shot in the battle was fired, all without leaving my living room,“ said history enthusiast and University of Texas student, Jed Golman.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2022

First spotted by Futurism , the video showcases an AR overlay capable of providing an estimated win percentage in a game of Texas Hold Em’ in real-time just by looking at the cards in the player’s hand. The video was shared by Dev Khanna, founder of a digital storytelling agency called DGsaga.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 18, 2022

The post details how a Texas judge found… Read more. “Midland County judge ‘pardons’ jaywalking puppy,” the headline reads, with a photo of a startled-looking Pomeranian behind a microphone, seemingly on a witness stand.

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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

JUNE 23, 2022

Tesla plants in Germany and Texas are burning money. Not literally of course, but these factories are losing “billions of dollars,” according to CEO Elon Musk in a recent interview. Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In a turn of events that will surprise exactly no one at this point, a large swath of the United States is currently experiencing an extreme and unprecedented weather event. Read more.

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