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TNW's Big Spam: Meet the first VR porn star
Welcome to our second ever newsletter takeover. Ela Darling, the queen of VR porn, feminist activist, and avid robot enthusiast, has pulled together her favorite stuff from around the internet. She's also joining us on TNW Answers tomorrow. Have you asked her your question ...
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7 realistic use cases for VR we haven’t explored deeply yet
The Ancient Greeks were one of the first peoples to examine the nature of reality. Parmenides, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, talks about reality as a phenomenon in which change is impossible and existence is timeless, necessary and uniform. Our conception of reality has most definitely ...
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Researchers are using VR to help teachers understand autism
Researchers are using VR as an empathy tool to help neurotypical teachers understand their students with autism. There have already been attempts to use VR to help autistic children and adults find new ways of coping. Autism Speaks, for example, funds a virtual reality training ...
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Got questions for the first ever VR porn star? Ela Darling is joining us on TNW Answers
What are the most exciting VR projects in porn right now? How has the #metoo movement affected the adult film industry? Is there a way technology could bring more gender equality? What is it about VR that has made it catch on so quickly in the industry? What new problems ...
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Review: HTC's Vive Pro is clearly the world's best VR headset
HTC's Vive Pro is better than the original in every way -- except the cost. We spent a week reviewing one to see if it was ...
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VR exhibit allows the blind to 'see' art thanks to special gloves
Forget massive headsets. An art exhibit in Prague is helping blind and visually impaired users to touch artwork in virtual reality thanks to special gloves. The Touching Masterpieces exhibit offers visitors a series of 3D models of famous statues to "view" via haptic feedback in ...
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Here's some awesome games to spend those Oculus apology credits on
Oculus, by way of $15 in store credit, has issued an apology for the issues which caused Rift headsets to cease functioning ...
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How VR could be the answer to America’s opioid epidemic
Can virtual reality really soothe pain? Jo Marchant meets the doctors who say yes, and who hope this is a solution for the country consuming 80 percent of the world’s opioid supply: the United States of America. “It’s like a crawly feeling inside,” says Judy*. “You get ...
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Someone made a VR experience where you're George W Bush in a bathtub
Oh, what a time to be alive. Just when I thought I'd seen the strangest stuff VR had for me, I discover George in the Tub, ...
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This blockchain-based platform creates entire cities in virtual reality
MARK.SPACE provides businesses and others with a tool to launch any type of 3D or VR project based on the ‘real world’ ...
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Samsung's HMD Odyssey is the best way to experience Microsoft's Mixed Reality
When Microsoft announced its entrance into the VR headset market, its partner products were attractive and relatively inexpensive, ...
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Hologroup's MR Guide makes Microsoft's HoloLens your new tour guide
Russian mixed-reality startup HoloGroup just released MR Guide, its holographic tour guide software for Microsoft's HoloLens ...
