The Apple Car Could Feature VR Technology And No Windows
Who needs windows when you have VR?
Did you know Apple has been working on a Car since 2014? After years of radio silence from the company, reports have began circulating that the company had switched gears and was now working on a self-driving vehicle that requires no input on behalf of the passengers. As such this autonomous car would lack any and all driver controls, including a steering wheel and foot pedals.
Since then Apple has filed several car-related patents teasing a number of potential features. That said, the most recent patent might be the company’s most interesting one yet.
On May 3rd, 2022, Apple filed a patent with the United States Patent & Trademark Office for an in-car VR entertainment system that utilizes the motion of the vehicle to further immerse passengers in their in-headset experiences. VR content is synchronized with the movement and acceleration of the autonomous vehicle as it travels to the desired location, offering a unique location-based experience that changes based on your commute.
According to past reports, Apple is expected to launch its long-awaited self-driving car sometime around 2025, though we’ve yet to receive any form of official confirmation from the company. Apple has filed a number of outrageous trademarks in the past that have yet to see the light of day.
17 JOBS OF THE FUTURE (and jobs that have no future)
What do you believe will be the jobs of the Future? Let’s check out the video below to hear about some amazing jobs of the future? Also, ask yourself, how many of these jobs have you heard about before? Enjoy.
Juneteenth Family Reunion
The 2022 Juneteenth Family Reunion is coming! Thank you to Lovelight Design Studio for this beautiful flyer! Spread the word!!
We are still accepting vendors and volunteers - please complete an interest form at https://linktr.ee/roanokeculturalcollective and more information will be sent to you. Thank you for your support!
The 2022 Juneteenth Family Reunion will be SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2022, at Eureka Park! If you would like to be a vendor or volunteer, please fill out an interest form and we will send you more information: https://linktr.ee/roanokeculturalcollective
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The 2022 Juneteenth Family Reunion is coming! Thank you to Lovelight Design Studio for this beautiful flyer! Spread the word!!
Once again, We are still accepting vendors and volunteers - please complete an interest form at https://linktr.ee/roanokeculturalcollective and more information will be sent to you. Thank you for your support!
Winter Coding Camp
Our Winter Coding Camp is here!!
Strokes of Genius X Science Museum of Western Virginia are excited to present the Winter Makey Makey Concert after our Winter Coding Camp for the holiday season. We hope to see you there. For more information, click the link below.
Did you know young women at Hollins University can attend tuition free?
Retrieved from: Jeff Sturgeon
Hollins University will begin offering tuition-free education to young women in the Roanoke region selected for a special program.
The Hope Scholar Program, which stands for Hollins Opportunity for Promise through Education, exists to alleviate the hardship of affording private college tuition for students with financial need, officials said.
“If you thought attending Hollins University was out of reach, we’ve got great news for you,” the university said on its website.
In choosing participants, the university will give preference to applicants from families with household adjusted gross income of $50,000 or less, said Ashley Browning, vice president of enrollment management. It is taking applications through Jan. 1 from interested women enrolled at a Virginia high school who live within 40 miles of the Hollins campus. Those selected will begin class in fall 2022.
Tuition at Hollins is currently $39,360 a year…..
Click here for more informatlion: Read Full Article by Jeff Sturgeon
How Do Kids Figure Out What Words Mean? New Computer Model Has Answers
Scientists are continually discovering more about how we pick up language from the earliest ages, and a new study looks specifically at how very young children integrate different sources of information to learn new words.
Those sources can be everything from whether or not they've seen an object before (which points to whether or not it has a name they've heard before) to what they might be chatting about with someone when a new word is introduced.
To figure out more about how these sources are combined, researchers put together a cognitive model, proposing a social inference approach where children use all the available information in front of them to infer the identity of a given object.
"You can think of this model as a little computer program," says developmental psychologist Michael Henry Tessler from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "We input children's sensitivity to different information, which we measure in separate experiments, and then the program simulates what should happen if those information sources are combined in a rational way."
"The model spits out predictions for what should happen in hypothetical new situations in which these information sources are all available."
The theoretical system researchers developed was informed by previous research in philosophy, developmental psychology, and linguistics. Data were also gathered from tests carried out with 148 kids aged between 2-5 years old to assess their sensitivity to different sources of information. The data were then plugged into the model.
Read Full Aritcle at: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-model-may-give-us-a-better-idea-of-how-kids-pick-up-new-words