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New app brings Mars exploration closer to life on Earth

The mobile app from Warsaw-based firm Immersion VR presents NASA’s ‘Perseverance’ rover mission and the surface of Mars in an interactive way. Immersion VR

The mobile app from Warsaw-based firm Immersion VR presents NASA’s ‘Perseverance’ rover mission and the surface of Mars in an interactive way.

New recording tech takes people into the heart of classic music concert

VIDEO: People can move around the orchestra or change their position in the concert hall to get a full-on experience.

Warsaw app shows US medical staff how to prepare before dealing with COVID-19 patients

The app from start-up company Immersion was commissioned by the US government and uses digital avatars and videos to guide medical staff step by step, explaining how to properly put on a mask and other specific actions needed before dealing with infected patients.

Award-winning start-up harnesses Virtual Reality technology to help kids overcome autism

Founded by 25-year-old Jakub Kreft, Unicorn VR has been hailed for helping kids develop their social and communication skills.

Take my pain away: researchers find VR can make medical procedures less painful

Distracting a patient with virtual reality and making them do small tasks can reduce the pain felt.

Stunning new VR experience teaches history like never before

Unveiled at the 20th Universal Congress of Polish Historians in Lublin the immersive learning experience called ‘Józef Piłsudski – The Marshal of Polish hearts’ helps users learn about both Piłsudski and the famous Jan Matejko painting ‘Unia Lubelska’.

Innovators help cancer sufferers with depression by introducing them to stunning virtual reality worlds

Combining virtual reality and behavioral therapy the company creates fantasy worlds in which the cancer patients can immerse themselves to lower the levels of stress and fear. They are also researching the links between psychotherapy and countering cancer.

Roarsome! Exciting new museum app gives full T-Rex experience

The ‘dinosaur’ app from Warsaw-based start-up Immersion, lets visitors to New York’s Museum of Natural History explore the world and biology of the fearsome predator in full virtual reality.

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  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

The first report:

  • Opposition presents pandemic aid programme
  • Ruling Law and Justice continues to have highest voter support - poll
  • Belarus protests Enduring Soldiers commemoration in east Poland
  • Poland’s Świątek wins Adelaide International tennis tournament
  • PM presents National Recovery Plan

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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