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• RealGo Startup: ITMO Students Create Russia’s First Accessible VR Controller

  …is the B2B segment, in other words selling or leasing the controllers to VR clubs. There are a lot of these now, but they’ve opened a couple of years ago when VR was something new and attractive. Now many of these clubs are closing because the public’s interest, and hence the profits, are dropping. But new technological solutions can re…

  09.01.2020

• ITMO Student Became the Youngest Winner of Young Runet Leaders Award

• Arctic Snacks: ITMO University Researchers Develop Functional Foods for Far North Regions

  …But these products expire too quickly and also contain excessive amounts of salt and sugar. The researchers plan to take these factors into account and come up with completely new recipes for their products. In fact, the project initially began with military rations in mind, but its creators eventually noted a larger demand for such products among athletes. They’v…

  08.01.2020

• Moving Forward: St. Petersburg in 2020

  …New transit rates Let’s start off with a bit of sour news: as many denizens of the city may already know, the New Year has brought with it significant changes to the ticket prices for most of St. Petersburg’s public transportation. That includes a new 55-ruble rate for met…

  07.01.2020

• Ten Life-Changing Technologies of 2019. Part 2

  …like Skype and FaceTime have brought video-calls closer to consumers from the world of business negotiations, collaborative telepresence may bring online communication up to a new level by enabling users to feel the physical presence of their interlocutors, including their touch. This technology would allow medical workers to see patients remotely as if they were in …

  07.01.2020

• Travel the Trans-Siberian Railway Like a Russian

  …It might be a while before I can actually do that, so I was happy to climb under a blanket over the holidays and go on an imaginary journey with the new book TrainsSib. The Train is Leaving!  Every spread depicts a town or a village along the way through the eyes of a local child or adult: their favorite sights, activities, treasures at the local market, local wor…

  06.01.2020

• Ten Life-Changing Technologies of 2019. Part 1

  … checkout. Temi (Temi USA) and Loomo (Segway Robotics) are the next generation of personal assistants: they are like Amazon Echo and Google Home but mobile, bringing them to a new level of functionality. For example, Loomo is not just a companion, but can also transform into a scooter.  The ever increasing elderly population of the world would benefit most fro…

  06.01.2020

• New Year’s Done Right: Brainy Books and Movies to Check Out This Holiday Season

  …ections in almost every American state. The book is a great pick for anyone interested in mathematics, machine learning, sociology, and economics. An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases, by Moises Velasquez-Manoff Velasquez-Manoff’s work presents an in-depth analysis of the connection between the growing “sterility”…

  03.01.2020

• Soviet Movies For the Winter Holidays

  …t buildings as much as a holiday love story, which explains the otherwise rather weird pretext of the movie. The main character, Zhenya, goes to a banya in Moscow to celebrate New Year's with his friends. After having one drink too many, however, he ends up on a plane to St. Petersburg and gives the taxi driver his Moscow home's address, arriving at a building identi…

  03.01.2020

• Ready Player One: Games We Play Over the Holidays

  …ouse in the other, debating what to do next and making guesses as to who was the main suspect. Later, as we got more and more involved with the game series and purchased every new game as soon as it was released, we started competing with each other, trying to finish the game faster than our companion. I wish we hadn’t done it, as it lead to us cheating in order to s…

  02.01.2020