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Technology Matters-Virtual Garage Sale Apps
Posted: Sep 14, 2019 / 04:17 PM EDT / Updated: Sep 14, 2019 / 04:20 PM EDT Nextdoor is a hyper-local social network intended to connect you with your neighbor and a great way to sell and buy stuff. Its as simple as creating a post in the “For Sale and Free” category. Decide who …
Rural school districts go “virtual” with new technology
HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) – Four local school districts are bridging the gap between rural areas and technology with virtual reality. Four local school districts received a $200,000 state grant to use virtual reality in their classrooms. Educators trained on how to use the device on Wednesday. (Source: Kelsey Dickeson, KSNB) With help from ESU9, Adams …
Virtual reality technology taking root in Texas high school football
Mike Lee, Special to the USA Today Network – Texas Published 3:35 p.m. CT Aug. 29, 2019 CLOSE Teaching the technology generations that grew up learning on computers can be a challenge — whether it’s English, history or football. A few years ago, A.J. Smith, then offensive coordinator of a small college in Louisiana, was …
Virtual ‘universe machine’ sheds light on galaxy evolution
A UA-led team of scientists generated millions of different universes on a supercomputer, each of which obeyed different physical theories for how galaxies should form. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team/STScI How do galaxies such as our Milky Way come into existence? How do they grow and change over time? The …
Technological Innovation and Content Resources Drive Success of iQIYI’s First Chinese Virtual Idol Band “RiCH BOOM”
Prior to this holographic performance, only pre-recorded interactions between virtual characters and human beings were available as real-time response from the virtual character is considered too technically challenging to achieve. For this Event, iQIYI applied real-time interactive technologies, such as the game engine UE4, to reduce the time consumption of production. This allows RiCH BOOM …
ARK’s Blockchain Technology Selected to Power nOS Virtual Operating System
PARIS, July 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — ARK.io, a leading blockchain technology provider, has today announced that its blockchain technology has been selected to power the nOS virtual operating system. The announcement details how the nOS virtual operating system, which provides web apps with a powerful solution to implement new and innovative business models, alongside a …
Virtual reality helps Japan’s elderly travel the world
(CNN) — Traveling from the canals of Venice to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, a group of elderly people in Japan is seeing the world — without even leaving their seats. It’s all thanks to virtual reality, as well as a team at the University of Tokyo led by Kenta Toshima. As a therapist, Toshima …
Fire department using virtual tour technology to bring in recruits
Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KSHB) — A video production team led by Aaron Monson grilled out for the Kansas City, Kansas, Fire Department on the Fourth of July to show their support for firefighters. “What we’re doing today is just giving back,” Monson said Thursday at the department’s headquarters. …
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris in virtual tie for Democratic nomination, new poll shows
Sen. Kamala Harris has catapulted into a virtual tie with Joe Biden in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination following her widely praised debate performance last week, a new national poll released Tuesday showed. The latest Quinnipiac University poll of Democratic and Democratic leaning voters showed Biden with 22 percent support and Harris with …
Mon Health Center Works In Virtual Reality With Patients | News, Sports, Jobs
Photo Provided Karen Buckton, a resident of Rock Cave, W.Va., and a cancer patient at Mon Health Medical Center in Morgantown, W.Va., tries on virtual reality goggles while undergoing treatment. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Dr. Jaschar Shakuri-Rad, a urologist at the Mon Health Medical Center in Morgantown, has carried out enough procedures to know that most …
