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VR at the first Olympic games?

The Summer Olympics start in Athens, Greece Aug. 13, but you can jump-start the celebration with a visit to “Ancient Olympia: A Photographic Odyssey,� which has its world premiere Tuesday, July 27 at the Cornell Museum of Art and History.

Running through Sept. 11, “Ancient Olympia� features 18 large-scale images of places where the Olympics originated more than 3,000 years ago in Greece, shot in glorious color, 360-degree rotary panoramic, wide-angle 120 mm, 35 mm and fish-eye formats.

A complementary exhibit contains artifacts from the first modern Olympics held in Greece in 1896, on loan from the Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale. Also included are a series of bookmarks featuring an Olympic panorama on one side and a descriptive history on the reverse, as well as a series of bookmarks illustrated with an Olympic panorama on one side and a descriptive history on the reverse.

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VR helps cancer recovery

New research in Virtual Reality show patients interacting with traditional VR (head sets and gloves) helps relieve patients symptoms following therapy.

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Surpise! Who reads blogs?

Probably not who you’d guess — they’re older, wealthier and click on blog ads.

While it’s easy to imagine a typical blog reader as hip, youthful and borderline penniless, a survey has found that most readers are older, have bucks and are professionals — making them a distinct, desirable and significant demographic.

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Social Media – Just 5 Things

5 Simple things you need to know about social media

1. It’s not just blogging
2. Bloggers aren’t just “guys who don’t date.”
3. There is a business model for social networking, but it’s not what you think.
4. Social networking can be incredibly powerfull free research for your brand
5. Your brand needs to be blogging. Don’t believe me? Just ask Microsoft.

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Millions of bloggers can’t be wrong

A recent 2004 survey suggests that up to 7 percent of online U.S. adults, or 8.8 million people, now blog. That year-on-year growth rate of bloggers would be roughly consistent with blog research firm Technorati, which tracks more than 2 million blogs and adds some 10,000 new blogs every day. 

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