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Venice Immersive Showcases Convergence of Cinema and XR
The Venice Film Festival's Venice Immersive (VI) section showcased 69 XR artworks from 27 countries, including works by veteran directors Doug Liman and Edward Berger, demonstrating a convergence between traditional cinema and immersive technologies.
Venice Immersive Showcases Convergence of Cinema and XR
The Venice Film Festival's Venice Immersive (VI) section showcased 69 XR artworks from 27 countries, including works by veteran directors Doug Liman and Edward Berger, demonstrating a convergence between traditional cinema and immersive technologies.
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20% Bias Score
Technology's Promise to Revolutionize Psychiatric Diagnosis
A 2024 Nature study identified six depression biotypes using fMRI in 800+ patients, revealing varying treatment responses and highlighting technology's potential to improve psychiatric diagnoses currently reliant on subjective patient reporting, with high false positive rates (over 60% for depressio...
Technology's Promise to Revolutionize Psychiatric Diagnosis
A 2024 Nature study identified six depression biotypes using fMRI in 800+ patients, revealing varying treatment responses and highlighting technology's potential to improve psychiatric diagnoses currently reliant on subjective patient reporting, with high false positive rates (over 60% for depressio...
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40% Bias Score
Virtual Illness Triggers Immune Response: VR Study
A Swiss study found that exposure to virtual reality scenarios depicting sick individuals triggered an immune response in participants, as measured by brain activity and increased innate lymphoid cell activity in blood samples, suggesting the body may preemptively prepare for potential threats.
Virtual Illness Triggers Immune Response: VR Study
A Swiss study found that exposure to virtual reality scenarios depicting sick individuals triggered an immune response in participants, as measured by brain activity and increased innate lymphoid cell activity in blood samples, suggesting the body may preemptively prepare for potential threats.
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16% Bias Score
Metaverse Development: Opportunities and Challenges
Meta's October 2022 rebranding as Meta and its metaverse push, alongside similar moves by Walmart, signal a potential shift towards virtual interaction, though challenges including access and moderation remain.
Metaverse Development: Opportunities and Challenges
Meta's October 2022 rebranding as Meta and its metaverse push, alongside similar moves by Walmart, signal a potential shift towards virtual interaction, though challenges including access and moderation remain.
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44% Bias Score
Meta Invests in Smart Glasses; XPANCEO Raises $250 Million for AI Contact Lenses
Meta invested $3.5 billion in EssilorLuxottica, owning nearly 3% and exceeding two million Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sales; XPANCEO raised $250 million, valued at $1.35 billion, developing AI-powered smart contact lenses.
Meta Invests in Smart Glasses; XPANCEO Raises $250 Million for AI Contact Lenses
Meta invested $3.5 billion in EssilorLuxottica, owning nearly 3% and exceeding two million Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sales; XPANCEO raised $250 million, valued at $1.35 billion, developing AI-powered smart contact lenses.
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48% Bias Score
Barcelona Titanic Exhibit: Immersive Experience Reveals Passengers' Fates
A Barcelona exhibit lets visitors experience the Titanic sinking through immersive technology and original artifacts, revealing their fate as a passenger – including the author, who died as a first-class passenger, Mr. Engelhart Cornelius Ostby.
Barcelona Titanic Exhibit: Immersive Experience Reveals Passengers' Fates
A Barcelona exhibit lets visitors experience the Titanic sinking through immersive technology and original artifacts, revealing their fate as a passenger – including the author, who died as a first-class passenger, Mr. Engelhart Cornelius Ostby.
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48% Bias Score
AI-Driven VR Experience Explores Political Manipulation and the Allure of Personalized Realities
The Great Orator, a Venice Immersive-selected VR experience by Daniel Ernst and Thomas Möhlmann, simulates exploring a deceased person's house, with AI generating memories based on user interaction, exploring themes of alternative healers, political manipulation, and AI's persuasive power.
AI-Driven VR Experience Explores Political Manipulation and the Allure of Personalized Realities
The Great Orator, a Venice Immersive-selected VR experience by Daniel Ernst and Thomas Möhlmann, simulates exploring a deceased person's house, with AI generating memories based on user interaction, exploring themes of alternative healers, political manipulation, and AI's persuasive power.
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44% Bias Score
Virtual Sickness Triggers Immune Response: VR Study
A Swiss study used virtual reality to show that simply being near virtual sick people activated the immune systems of healthy participants, increasing innate lymphoid cell activity; researchers suggest VR may be a promising addition to other immune-boosting tools.
Virtual Sickness Triggers Immune Response: VR Study
A Swiss study used virtual reality to show that simply being near virtual sick people activated the immune systems of healthy participants, increasing innate lymphoid cell activity; researchers suggest VR may be a promising addition to other immune-boosting tools.
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20% Bias Score
Summer Wars": Family Drama Meets Virtual Reality Crisis
In Mamoru Hosoda's 2009 anime "Summer Wars", a high school student inadvertently enables a malevolent AI to compromise the global network Oz during a family reunion near Ueda, highlighting the fragility of digital security and the unforeseen consequences of online actions.
Summer Wars": Family Drama Meets Virtual Reality Crisis
In Mamoru Hosoda's 2009 anime "Summer Wars", a high school student inadvertently enables a malevolent AI to compromise the global network Oz during a family reunion near Ueda, highlighting the fragility of digital security and the unforeseen consequences of online actions.
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36% Bias Score
Tech Giants Renew VR Push Amidst Content and Adoption Challenges
Despite initial setbacks, tech giants are investing heavily in virtual reality (VR) with new content partnerships and hardware updates. Global AR/VR headset shipments increased by 10% in 2024, signaling potential growth despite recent losses.
Tech Giants Renew VR Push Amidst Content and Adoption Challenges
Despite initial setbacks, tech giants are investing heavily in virtual reality (VR) with new content partnerships and hardware updates. Global AR/VR headset shipments increased by 10% in 2024, signaling potential growth despite recent losses.
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36% Bias Score
VisionOS 26: Significant Upgrades Enhance Spatial Computing Experience
Apple's VisionOS 26 update significantly enhances spatial computing with persistent widgets, photorealistic Personas, controller support (PSVR2, Logitech Muse), spatial scenes, wider FoV content (GoPro, Insta360, Canon), improved privacy features, and enhanced external device integration (iPhone, Ma...
VisionOS 26: Significant Upgrades Enhance Spatial Computing Experience
Apple's VisionOS 26 update significantly enhances spatial computing with persistent widgets, photorealistic Personas, controller support (PSVR2, Logitech Muse), spatial scenes, wider FoV content (GoPro, Insta360, Canon), improved privacy features, and enhanced external device integration (iPhone, Ma...
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48% Bias Score
Anduril Takes Over Army's $22B IVAS Program
Anduril Industries, founded by Palmer Luckey, assumed the $22B IVAS program from Microsoft in early 2025, marking a shift towards AI-driven military AR/VR technology, and collaborating with Meta on extended reality devices for the U.S. military.
Anduril Takes Over Army's $22B IVAS Program
Anduril Industries, founded by Palmer Luckey, assumed the $22B IVAS program from Microsoft in early 2025, marking a shift towards AI-driven military AR/VR technology, and collaborating with Meta on extended reality devices for the U.S. military.
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40% Bias Score
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