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Link About It: This Week’s Picks Virtual Reality

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Seoul’s Liquid Anamorphic Illusion, “WAVE,” by d’strict Located on the LED screens of Seoul, South Korea’s COEX atrium, the large-scale public art project, “Wave,” by local digital creators d’strict, tricks passersby (and those who watch the video, too). An anamorphic illusion, the artwork simulates a giant wave about to break…
bubmag
May 21, 2020
Facebook’s Workplace, now with 5M paying users, adds drop-in video Rooms and more Virtual Reality

Facebook’s Workplace, now with 5M paying users, adds drop-in video Rooms and more

One of the biggest technology takeaways of the last couple of months has been that organizations need confident, wide-ranging digital strategies to stay afloat, and Facebook — in its wider bid to build products to serve businesses — is taking note. In the same week that the social network doubled…
bubmag
May 21, 2020
Help Wanted: participants for a NASA social isolation experiment inside a Russian lab Virtual Reality

Help Wanted: participants for a NASA social isolation experiment inside a Russian lab

NASA is looking to pay US citizens to spend eight months in social isolation inside a Russian laboratory. The goal is to simulate the longterm social distancing that astronauts will endure on future missions to Mars. The location is "a unique multi-compartment facility used as an analog for isolation, confinement,…
bubmag
May 19, 2020
Apple is buying a virtual reality company, but don’t expect a headset anytime soon Virtual Reality

Apple is buying a virtual reality company, but don’t expect a headset anytime soon

NextVR is about content, not hardware. NextVR Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by Macworld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors As the rest of the world is tightening purse strings, Apple is continuing to spend. After a month of speculation, Apple confirmed that it has purchased…
bubmag
May 14, 2020