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VR theme parks, Fukushima, Met slams web giants and more: pick of the week’s newsHilary Lamb, news reporter Dubai debuts VR and AR mixed reality theme park From a brief description, this sounds like a great idea. Theme parks have been quick to embrace digital technologies to jazz up their attractions and adopting AR and […]

Hate speech regulations for social media could be relaxed after complaintsWhile social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter have come heavily under fire in the past year for their alleged passivity in the face of hate speech, violent content and misinformation being spread on their platforms, Germany is the first European country to introduce […]

Special lens brings 3D capabilities to standard camera equipmentPreviously, the capture of depth information was only possible using images or footage from camera arrays or special light field cameras. Along with the two image dimensions, these also record the direction of incident light rays. However, photographers and filmmakers had to pay for the advantages – […]

‘Jurassic World Alive’ bringing virtual dinosaurs to real-world surroundingsAlthough AR applications have been available for years, the technology did not gain wide prominence until the launch of Niantic’s Pokémon Go. The location-based AR game, in which colourful images of Pokémon are overlaid over the user’s real world surroundings, became one of the popular and profitable […]

Autonomous submarines set out to collect and analyse ocean microbesA team from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) completed the construction and testing of three new LRAUVs in late February and delivered them last week for their first deployment in Hawaiian waters. Ocean microbes produce […]

This robo-bug can improvise its walk like a real insect There are plenty of projects out there attempting to replicate the locomotion of insects, but one thing that computers and logic aren’t so good at is improvising and adapting the way even the smallest, simplest bugs do. This project from Tokyo Tech is a step in […]

FCC accuses stealth space startup of unauthorized satellite deployment The FCC has denied a space startup permission to launch a collection of communications satellites after discovering that it had already launched some — after being told not to. Swarm Technologies, still in stealth mode, appears to have gone ahead with the deployment of four satellites deemed […]