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THOUSANDS of people across Wirral came together to celebrate the Queens Platinum Jubilee over the weekend.

FROM street parties and house decorations to fancy dress and 40s singers, residents from across the borough have been celebrating the Queen’s…

The Oculus Guardian that keeps track of your VR play space is about to get a big upgrade in Oculus Quest update v30.

BBC News Published image copyrightGoogle Google has made its virtual-reality painting tool open source, handing it over to community creators instead of shutting it down. The Tilt Brush app allows users wearing for VR headsets to "paint" sculptures in three-dimensional space. After the apps 2016 launch, a community of artists sprang up around its unique feature set. Google has now announced it is discontinuing work on the app - but making the code publicly available. media caption3D painting m...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an X. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. A 3D artwork created in Tilt Brush Chandana Ekanayake / Google The tech giant said it would make the games code available online.  But the move represents another blow to Googles virtual and augmented reality aspirations.  Google has shut down its development of 3D painting app Tilt Brush, marking the latest in a string o...

Tipatat Chennavasin Google is winding down support for yet another one of its marquee VR products. In a blog post spotted by Protocol, the company said it’s halting development on Tilt Brush and open sourcing the project so that the community can continue to use the app.  “To some, this may look like the end of Tilt Brush. To me, this is immortality,” said Tilt Brush co-creator Patrick Hackett of Google’s decision. Incidentally, Hackett left the company earlier in the month. For its p...

Google open sources Tilt Brush VR software as it shuts down internal development As Facebook and Apple begin to fire up more projects in the AR/VR world, Google has spent the last year shutting down most of their existing projects in that space. Today, the folks at Google announced they had ended active development of Tilt Brush, a VR painting app that was one of virtual reality’s early hit pieces of software. The app allowed users to use virtual reality controllers as brushes to construct di...

The two were candidates for a city council seat in a small kentucky community of crescent springs. and after election night, once the polls closed and after the ballots were counted, it was all but clear who would become the next member of the city council. >> she says, weve counted these ballots over and over and over again and its a tie. and im going, oh, no. >> i said, what?! you sure? she said, weve counted it a couple of times. i was shocked. >> they kept trying to count it and see if there...