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  Google invited 6 artists to create VR artwork and the results are fascinating

  TNW - Napier Lopez

  If you care about virtual reality at all, you’ve probably heard about VR artists doing their thing using the new medium. Now Google wants to bring you a bit closer to the art-making experience with its new Chrome experiment. Called Virtual Art Sessions, it’s basically a set of 3D, 360-degree videos …

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  Let’s go ahead and make Earth invisible to aliens, just in case

  Quartz - David Kipping

  What would it take to hide an entire planet? It sounds more like a question posed in an episode of “Star Trek” than in academic discourse, but sometimes the bleeding edge of science blurs with themes found in science fiction. Of course we’ve been leaking our own position to distant stars via radio …

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  Everything Is Made Of Waves; Also, Particles

  Forbes

  Everything in the universe has both particle and wave nature, at the same time.They’re really just different language describing the same mathematical object.

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  Microsoft is helping people build iPhone and Android apps, for free

  Business Insider - Matt Weinberger

  In February, Microsoft snapped up Xamarin — a hot startup that makes it super simple for developers to write an app once and have it run on any device or web browser. At today's Microsoft Build event Microsoft cloud boss Scott Guthrie shared the company's master plan for Xamarin. And judging from …

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  Final Fantasy 15 has a new playable demo on PS4 and Xbox One

  Polygon - Michael McWhertor

  Final Fantasy fans who don't want to wait until September to get their hands on Final Fantasy 15 can download a new demo for the role-playing game right now. Square Enix released the new "Platinum Demo" for Final Fantasy 15 today, and it's available now from the PlayStation Store and Xbox Games Store. …

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  Google's new VR View tool allows easy embedding of 360-degree content

  The Verge - James Vincent

  Google wants to make 360-degree content more accessible for more people, and to do so, it is introducing a new tool: VR View. This allows developers to embed 360-degree photos and videos in their websites or apps simply by adding a few lines of code. Google says the aim is to make this sort of …