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Virtual Reality Trends And Developments: Overview For 2020 And 2021

This year saw an overall sense of optimism and growing momentum for immersive technologies and entertainment appearing in the mainstream. There is ongoing growth of consumer demand for VR products, and businesses are showing greater interest in adoption. Here is an overview:

Interview With The HEX Blockchain Project

HEX monetizes the time value of money in a totally new way.

Interview With AAVE Founder, A DeFi Blockchain Project

The DeFi space moves so fast so its hard to tell, but I think we will see mainstream adoption happening soon (before 10 years out)

Prominent People In The History Of Virtual Reality

Here is an overview of some of the people who made it happen and will continue to do important innovative work, as VR reaches an ever more global audience:

Scientists Mapped Every Large Solar Plant On The Planet Using Satellites And Machine Learning

Researchers have built a machine learning system to detect these solar facilities in satellite imagery.

NASA Pushes Back Its Plans For A Crewed Lunar Landing To 2025

Where Apollo put humans on the Moon in only eight years after its starting from scratch with no more than some vague concepts, the current Artemis project has yet to repeat that event, despite beginning in 2012 and inheriting decades of knowledge and technological advances.

How The Universe's Expansion May Have Stopped Dark Matter Taking Over

The team says that this mechanism would leave a specific fingerprint on the cosmic microwave background radiation, which could be spotted (or ruled out) by future observations.

Higher Intensity Exercise Found To Offer Greater Relief From Anxiety

"The model involving 12 weeks of physical training, regardless of intensity, represents an effective treatment that should be made available in primary health care more often for people with anxiety issues."

Chemotherapy-Free Stem Cell Transplant Promises Safer Leukemia Treatment

Leukemia and other blood cancers typically start in the bone marrow, where blood cells are produced by stem cells. For those with life-threatening illness, there’s one treatment option that can be very effective, but carries a serious risk of side effects – hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT).

Experimental RNA Therapy Harnesses Immune System To Fight COVID-19

Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have developed a new kind of COVID-19 treatment designed to stimulate the body's immune defenses and fight off a coronavirus infection at its earliest stages.

Perseverance Is Using Its Tools On Mars To Search For Signs Of Life

Perseverance now heads to the western edge of the crater next, according to NASA, where an ancient river delta probably flowed into a lake in the crater. Scientists think that this is the best bet for signs of potential microbial life, because on Earth, microbes exist in a similar environment.

Unity Moves Robotics Design And Training To The Metaverse

While there are several companies that have built simulators targeted especially at AI applications like robotics or synthetic data generation, Unity claims that the ease of use of its authoring tools makes it stand out above its rivals.