GizModo VR

JANUARY 18, 2022

West Virginia won’t use BlackRock’s investment funds any longer as part of its banking transactions, positioning itself as defending poor, defenseless American fossil fuel companies. The boycott is based on BlackRock’s recent public statements on climate—but ignores the realities of where the financial giant is… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 27, 2021

An outbreak of hepatitis A has sickened at least 50 people in Virginia, with one person dying and another needing a liver transplant. The cases have been tied to a restaurant employee who worked at several locations of a local chain. Though the spread of the outbreak is now thought to be largely contained, more cases… Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A West Virginia man named Timothy Watson was arrested last week for allegedly selling a 3D-printed wall hook that, when disassembled, was actually a “drop-in auto sear,” a small piece of plastic that could turn the popular AR-15 rifle into an illegal machine gun. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hundreds of people have been trapped in their cars on a stretch of highway in Virginia on Monday and Tuesday after a heavy snowstorm made roads nearly impassible. Traffic was still stalled on the highway on Tuesday morning as some drivers told news outlets they had been on the road for almost 24 hours. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 13, 2020

On the last day for residents across Virginia to register to vote in the coming election, multiple websites housing the state’s voter registration portal were suddenly knocked offline. Now, local authorities are pinning the blame on a mysteriously cut fiber optic cable. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 1, 2022

Virginia, which approved a ban on local police use of biometric identification tools around a year ago, formally bailed on the law’s most substantive measures on Friday. A patchwork of individual state privacy laws isn’t filling the hole left by absent federal government regulation on facial recognition. Now, under an… Read more.

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VRScout

JULY 28, 2021

The game is brought to us by Virginia-based game company Zojoi, which was founded by two of the creators of the original Shadowgate , so you know you’re getting an authentic experience. That being said, this ain’t your parents’ dungeon crawler.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 12, 2020

Air Force UH-1N Huey helicopter while it was flying in Virginia around noon on Monday, injuring one of the two pilots on board, an Air Force official told CNN on Wednesday. Someone opened fire on a U.S. Read more.

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VRScout

MAY 24, 2022

In 2020 we talked about how the Strasburg Police Department in Strasburg, Virginia was using VR technology for crisis de-escalation training. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen VR technology used by law enforcement for training purposes.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Even with mandatory evacuations of Virginia and the Carolina’s currently underway, officials expect heavy damage and casualties as a result of the deadly weather.

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VRScout

JULY 15, 2020

According to research conducted by West Virginia’s Brain Injury Research Institute , an estimated 1.6 – 3.8 Mountain biking champion Kate Courtney leads us through a VR tour through the human brain in episode one of this multi-part series.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2024

” Additionally, Headspace says it’s conducting a randomized control trial at Virginia Tech later this year to evaluate how Headspace XR helps people with social health and connection, as well as perceived and objective stress. Headspace XR is now available on the Quest Store for a one-time purchase of $30.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The group was met with resistance in Virginia. The Freedom Riders tried to use amenities at bus stations that were made available only to white people in Southern states. ?. On May 4, 1961, activists known as “Freedom Riders” boarded two buses that left Washington and were bound for New Orleans. Some Freedom Riders were arrested.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

Newly-elected member of West Virginia’s House of Delegates Derrick Evans was among the insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, and we know this because he streamed video of himself doing it in which he referred to himself in the third person. Read more.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Sandbox VR – San Francisco, CA More locations are set to open in the near future in Kentucky, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The US fans can enjoy this and other Sandbox VR experiences in more than 20 locations, and more than 15 states, including California, New Jersey, Texas, Minnesota, Nevada, Illinois, and Washington.

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2018

What makes the newly upgraded educator version of EDGE different is that in order to create a realistic VR experience specific to school shooting training, the developers studied the actual dispatch tapes and police reports of past school shootings such as Columbine, and Virginia Tech, and even met with a mother of a child killed during Sandy Hook (..)

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2020

In fact, she started at 17 years old as an assistant in her former third grade teacher’s Chesapeake, Virginia classroom where her then-six years old sister was in first grade. “[In] For as long as she can remember, Frazier has wanted to work with children, calling herself a “forever teacher.” In] high school years I was homeless.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 7, 2022

Joe Manchin make millions tried to pivot to mining cryptocurrency but was denied by West Virginia officials. Here’s your word scramble for the week: A gob-burning power plant that helped Sen. Say that three times fast! Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 23, 2021

While Life Day will always be Star Wars ’ most famous holiday, there are more. There’s an entire galaxy full of celebrations, festivals, and observances including, somewhat surprisingly, the planet Aargau’s Take Your Daughter to Work Day. And, while it’s unknown if Space Jesus was born in the Star Wars … 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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HaptX

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Blacksburg, Virginia and San Luis Obispo, California – A research team including Virginia Tech, University of Florida and HaptX won a $1.5 We’re thrilled to collaborate with NSF and Virginia Tech to build a platform that simulates realistic full-body interactions and helps more fully realize our company’s original vision.”.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Virginia Commonwealth University , or VCU for short, is the latest educational facility to install a Virtual Reality lab on their premises. While not every VR Lab out there will offer setups as advanced as Virginia Commonwealth University, but these labs are becoming much more commonplace. Comment below and let us know!

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AR Insider

JULY 12, 2021

If you recall, the song is an ode to West Virginia, where Zuck is certainly not. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted an iconic Instagram video showing him on a hydrofoil waving U.S. flag at sunset. “Happy July 4th!,” ” read the post, scored with John Denver’s “Country Road.” Once upon a time that didn’t mean anything.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2022

Unusually warm temperatures in Northern Greenland last week triggered a huge ice melt, alarming scientists. Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

9, 1997 , and the man responsible for one of the most egregious environmental follies in human history is sitting at a restaurant in Boyce, Virginia, with the leader of the movement seeking to undo his mistake. The date is Feb. Of the hundreds of dams Floyd Dominy green lit during his decade running the Bureau of… Read more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Busch Gardens Virginia , one of the United States’ top theme parks, created an immersive roller coaster ‘The Battle for Eire’ featuring emerald mask VR headsets from the Taiwanese tech giant. As media and entertainment companies explore possibilities inside the metaverse, there are three key use cases to remember.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Joe Manchin, the Maserati -driving centrist senator from West Virginia who’s already managed to single-handedly derail the most surefire avenue to reduce emissions in the reconciliation bill and gut key methane reduction provisions, is at it again. This time, Manchin has his NRA- approved sights set on proposed EV tax… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

DNA forensics, at their best, are intended to bring an air of scientific confidence to the criminal justice system to hopefully prevent the worst kinds of wrongful convictions. Those good intentions are made meaningless though when bad cops decide to fight dirty. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 9, 2020

On Thursday, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring gave everyone a reason to say, “oh yeah, I forgot about that Doc… Read more. Since Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness premiered on Netflix earlier this year, most public attention has been focused on the lives of the series’ prime subjects: Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin.

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VRScout

APRIL 4, 2018

Showcased recently at CERDEC’s testing center in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the prototype metal detector-type device was waved over a mound of sand where a nearby screen then projected a digital image of what lies within the depths of the sand.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

26 – Virginia Tech vs. Virginia. Georgia Southern. 29 – South Carolina vs. Tennessee. 5 – Ole Miss vs. Georgia Southern. 10 – Duke vs. UNC. 19 – Tennessee vs. Missouri. The post This Restaurant Will Let You Paint With Sauces in VR appeared first on VRScout.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 29, 2021

This time, according to CNN , federal agencies are looking into something closer to home: symptoms suffered by a White House employee in Virginia and National Security… Read more. Another day, another mostly anonymously sourced story about unidentified assailants supposedly assaulting U.S. government employees around the globe.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Mercy Street is a period medical drama that follows nurses and doctors in Alexandria, Virginia during the Civil War. The historic event under the immersive microscope this time is the Civil War as PBS Digital Studios takes us into the conflict with their 360 short My Brother’s Keeper.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The month before a massive federal civil trial is set to begin over the horrifying “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, one of the deadly rally’s main architects has a different priority: logging off and playing video games. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate a Virginia-based company revealed by the Associated Press to provide law enforcement agencies across the U.S. with access to cellphone tracking technology capable of mapping people’s movements “months back in time.” Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2022

Senator Tim Kaine and I have something in common: We were extremely unwise to drive through the state of Virginia on Monday, when the combination of winter storms and the traditional regional practice of doing nothing about them screwed us both over for over 20 hours. Read more.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 16, 2021

The service is planned to first hit shoppers based in Virginia and “two other markets,” according to an… Read more. In yet another bid to completely dominate all things e-commerce, Amazon’s reportedly begun testing a premium service that lets its customers opt into having their deliveries assembled once they reach their door.

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