Gaming, sports, travel and entertainment are just a few industries exploring the possibilities of VR. Today several media giants are also experimenting at large scale. But will we all soon walk around with bulky headsets? And will we be able to cope with the intense experience of VR? asks Katarina Andersson, Schibsted's Silicon Valley-correspondent.

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Each year during WAN-IFRA's Congress, the US-based Local Media Association (LMA) holds an annual meeting of small to mid-sized publishers, and it's inevitably a fascinating look at how news publishers typically working with small staffs and limited budgets are making the transition from print to digital.

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Too many people are held in solitary confinement, with 80,000 right now in the U.S. alone. But did we really need three separate VR simulations of a cell?

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For a few years now, The Globe and Mail in Canada has had November earmarked for its move into a new, five-floor building in Toronto. But innovation never sleeps and CEO Phillip Crawley couldn’t wait to launch The Globe's new Lab351 innovation lab in the dedicated roomy space of the new building; instead “accelerating” its launch with a makeshift lab in its old headquarters. The results are already starting to pay off, he says.

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