Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online, including a ban on the publishing and distribution of “fake news” created with technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality. From a report: Any use of AI or virtual reality also needs to be clearly marked in a prominent manner and failure to follow the rules could be…
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Russian farmers are giving cows VR headsets
A rather bizarre experiment in Russia has seen dairy cows being equipped with virtual reality headsets. It might seem like an out-of-season April Fool… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/332460/russian-farmers-are-giving-cows-vr-headsets…
Oculus Go Headset Deal: Explore the World of Science in VR
The Oculus Go is a fantastic first step into the world of virtual reality and now you can get it for just $149, saving you 25%. Source: https://www.livescience.com/oculus-go-deal.html
A virtual reality camera captures life and science aboard the space station
With only minutes until sunrise aboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Nick Hague rushed to shut off the lights in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM). Traveling 17,500 miles per hour, the space station orbits Earth 16 times in 24 hours, so every 90 minutes, the space station experiences a sunrise. For this sunrise, though, the speed of their approach was…
17th-Century Dutch Smugglers’ Shipwreck Comes to Life in Virtual Reality
A virtual dive of a 17th-century shipwreck explores the remains of a ship used by the Dutch to secretly trade with Iceland. Source: https://www.livescience.com/virtual-dive-milkmaid-shipwreck.html
Google Discontinues Daydream VR
Google’s Daydream, Android’s built-in virtual reality platform, is as good as dead. From a report: Following the company’s annual hardware event today, Google confirmed to VentureBeat that the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL do not support the VR platform. Furthermore, Google stopped selling the Daydream View headset today. There are also no plans to support Daydream in future Android devices,…
Your heartbeat may shape how likely you are to have a car crash
A virtual reality driving game suggests that drivers’ reaction times are slower if they encounter an obstacle at the same time as a heartbeat Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2219713-your-heartbeat-may-shape-how-likely-you-are-to-have-a-car-crash/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
What’s new on Coursera for Business – September 2019
By Kyle Clark, Senior Skills Transformation Consultant Coursera released 60+ courses on our platform in September. Our industry partners IBM and Amazon Web Services continue to release cutting edge content, while university partners like Imperial College London, EDHEC Business School, and the University of Illinois push the boundaries in skills ranging from app development to […]
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Facebook To Create Virtual Reality Social Media World Called Horizon
dryriver shares a report from the BBC: Facebook is creating an immersive environment called Horizon to tempt people into spending more time in virtual reality. The VR app will be a mix of social places where users can mingle and chat, and other areas where they can play games against each other. People will inhabit and explore the virtual spaces via…
The Internet Is Coming To the Rest of the Animal Kingdom
Wave723 shared this article from September’s issue of IEEE Spectrum about an usual project by a leading group of cognitive biologists and computer scientists:
Dubbed the Interspecies Internet, the project aims to provide intelligent animals such as elephants, dolphins, magpies, and great apes with a means to communicate among each other and with people online. And through artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and…