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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 7, 2023

GeekWire

Seattle film nonprofit SIFF acquires historic theater from Paul Allen estate Seattle film lovers got their Hollywood ending. … Read More Cinerama is saved! … Read More Wood or would not? . … Read More .” … Read More

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Can VR art help us see the real world differently?

Vox

How artists are thinking about the future of virtual reality. I sat on my couch, a virtual reality (VR) headset strapped to my face, my feet hovering over a campfire. This year, about three weeks before the festival was slated to begin, Sundance pivoted from an in-person event with robust virtual offerings to a fully virtual event.

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7-year-old boy saves Seattle from robot invasion — with help from VR engineers and Make-A-Wish

GeekWire

Tri Films Productions Photo). Tarcha talked to the nonprofit Virtual World Society , which put out the request to its network to see who could help. In the time of COVID-required social distancing and closures, trips to Hawaii or Disney World that kids often request aren’t readily available.

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Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse. What does he see next?

Vox

We discussed whether the metaverse can exist even if high-end virtual reality goggles never catch on; why he’s never been able to turn his work into a movie, TV show, or game; and his fear of a looming ecological disaster and the science he thinks could solve it. You need other people to mobilize huge amounts of capital to make that real.

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The Future of War is Cyber

Galido

Let us suppose that this concentration of technology is the armed wing of a nation ready to fight a cyberwar: from this great office, not too different from those represented in many Hollywood films, one nation can decide to challenge another by hacking cyber attacks, viruses, sabotage against the systems of the target nation.

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Eight key developments in the global media industry: July 2006 – June 2007 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

An unauthorised video of Saddam Hussein’s execution filmed on a mobile phone is broadcast around the world. ITV offers viewers ‘mobile coupons’ linked to advertisements. San Francisco Chronicle announces plans to cut 25% of its newsroom staff. 120,000 new blogs are created per day and Technorati tracks 70 million blogs.

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The $499 HTC Vive Flow is VR for people who don’t like VR

The Verge

After years of focusing on business-oriented virtual reality, HTC is launching a $499 entertainment-focused headset called the Vive Flow in November, with preorders starting globally today. So you can watch a 360-degree video or sit in a virtual environment, but you can’t use apps that require full-fledged virtual hands.