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Reaching the moon usually takes days.  Here's why a Tokyo startup is instead giving its lander months after today's SpaceX launch

Reaching the moon usually takes days. Here’s why a Tokyo startup is instead giving its lander months after today’s SpaceX launch

A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander on Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates’ first lunar rover and a toy-like Japanese robot designed to roll up there in the gray dust . It will take nearly five months for the lander and its experiments …

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People pay $12 to take virtual reality tours of Costa Rica's turtle nests or India's Holi festival from their couch.  Meet a tour guide who takes advantage of this travel niche.

People pay $12 to take virtual reality tours of Costa Rica’s turtle nests or India’s Holi festival from their couch. Meet a tour guide who takes advantage of this travel niche.

Ligia Morera, based in Costa Rica, leads virtual tours on the Japanese platform Dokodemo Door Trip. She started when travel was interrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic and she needed a new source of income. She now works in partnership with schools to reach new audiences and customers. Loading Something is loading. Thank you for your …

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Meta takes on the US antitrust agency over the future of virtual reality

Meta takes on the US antitrust agency over the future of virtual reality

WASHINGTON/SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec 8 (Reuters) – The Federal Trade Commission, which enforces antitrust law, is about to engage in a real court battle over virtual reality. On Thursday, a high-profile lawsuit kicks off in which the FTC will try to stop Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) from buying virtual reality app developer …

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Gamers, publishers, developers, designers: a comeback from Intel takes over Apple

IIn recent years, Apple has grown in part thanks to its excellent semiconductor design arm, which has created custom processors based on the ARM instruction set – not only for the iPhone, but also for the Mac, the ‘Apple Watch, AirPods and iPad. The Mac is particularly interesting because, until 2020, Apple used microprocessors from …

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Virtual Reality Zone Takes Center Stage at the Red Sea International Film Festival

Virtual Reality Zone Takes Center Stage at the Red Sea International Film Festival

RIYADH: An electronic music festival considered one of the biggest in the world and a sign of the rapidly expanding entertainment landscape in Saudi Arabia, has drawn hundreds of thousands to a remote desert area outside from Riyadh for the past three days. The raves of the third edition of Soundstorm took to the stages, …

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LevelUp takes the class on a trip to ancient Greece

LevelUp takes the class on a trip to ancient Greece

Published November 30, 2022 Making the classroom engaging can be a challenge, but thanks to Lockwood Memorial Library’s LevelUp computer and gaming site, some teachers are finding ways to put a world of experiences in the hands of their students – without ever having to leave. the campus. Michael Kicey, Humanities Librarian and Assistant Instructor, …

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Virtual reality takes hold in the combat management system

Virtual reality takes hold in the combat management system

DAHLGREN, Va. – Back in the 1990s, the gaming world predicted that virtual reality would be mainstream by 1994. While that prediction may have been slightly premature, the last few years have truly brought a shift in the ubiquity of this new technology. Primarily associated with products in the market today, virtual reality (VR) has …

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