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Oculus Rift VR being used for tsunami disaster training in Japan

On March 11 2011, Japan was hit with one of the most devastating tsunamis the island nation has ever experienced. Now, five years later, the Aichi University of Technology is utilising virtual reality to prepare its populace for future catastrophic natural disasters. The VR simulation is powered by the Facebook-backed Oculus Rift headset and puts the user behind the wheel …

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Samsung Galaxy S7: Should you upgrade?

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are the phones to beat. When they hit the shops on March 11, they’ll be the best pocket computers you can buy — just read our Galaxy S7 review to see what I mean. But do you really need to upgrade from a Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S5, or maybe a Galaxy Note 5 …

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Amazon Video to get its own virtual

If your tech company doesn’t have a virtual-reality team in 2016 it’s seriously behind the times — at least that’s what the social networks and phone makers of the world have led us to believe. Amazon is the latest company to jump on the virtual-reality bandwagon, a fact we know thanks to a job posting spotted by UploadVR. The Seattle, …

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Launch the iOS app switcher with 3D Touch

Double-tapping the Home button to call up the app switcher to jump to another app or close an app has probably become such a force of habit that you can’t imagine app switching or app closing by any other means. But should you have an iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus with 3D Touch and a desire to shun the …

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Virtual reality isn’t just for games; VR movies and TV shows are closer than you think

I don’t care how many cool points I lose by saying this: an animated short VR movie just blew my mind. I hadn’t seen anything like “On Ice” before, a “Blades-of-Glory“-meets-Pixar short created by Google, a veteran in VR animated movies by today’s standards. The movie follows ice skater Rudy Lazarus as he spectacularly performs in an all-white, chest-hair-revealing, deep-V …

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For women in tech, it’s been a so

The push toward gender equality in the tech world is, at best, a mixed bag. And the industry knows it. Many of its biggest companies, including Apple and Facebook, admit they need to do more to attract women to their workforce. A few, such as Salesforce.com and Intel, now make sure women and men doing the same work are paid …

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