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Entertainment

Finally, Virtual Reality Lets You Become a Mystical Forest Creature

09.22.15

By Kevin Holmes
Tech

A New Closed-Source File Format Threatens the Open-Source Mapping Community

04.22.15

By Ben Richmond
Entertainment

Digital Animals Populate the Forest in This Immersive 3D Scanned Installation

02.10.15

By Kevin Holmes
Tech

NASA Plans to Shoot Lasers at the Earth to Study Forests in 3D

09.09.14

By Becky Ferreira
Entertainment

Enter A Digitized Forest In This New Audiovisual Installation

06.25.14

By Emerson Rosenthal
Tech

Lidar Mapping Could Save Lives Before the Next Mudslide

03.28.14

By Ben Richmond
Tech

NASA’s Space Lasers Will Monitor Our Melting Polar Ice

01.29.14

By Ben Richmond

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