Penticton Museum has unveiled an extraordinary new educational tool for public programming called an Augmented Reality Sandbox. Similar to one at UCLA (watch UCLA’s YouTube video here), the Augmented Reality Sandbox allows users to shift and sculpt the sand into mountains, canyons and rivers. As the sand is shifted and changed, it is recorded by […]
Archives for January 2016
Penticton Museum unveils extraordinary sandbox
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What will 2016 bring up the river?
Okanagan Nation Alliance reports: 57 million sockeye smolts expected March to June with a goal to capture 40-100 thousand of them to tag. This would be done at the Osoyoos Narrows and at the Zosel Dam near Oroville. ONA is asking that the Town of Osoyoos notify general public to proceed with caution when smolt […]
Fraud on seniors ~ theft from vehicles – concerns in Osoyoos
4th quarter of 2015 – Report on police work by Sgt. Randall (Randy) Bosch Osoyoos R.C.M.P. responded to 309 calls for service compared with 588 calls received during the third quarter of 2015. This corresponds to a decrease of 48%.Among these calls for service for the fourth quarter of 2015, Osoyoos R.C.M.P. responded to 90 […]
On the hill – Richard Cannings MP
Voters made clear choices for change in the federal election, and one of those choices was for electoral reform. The Liberals, NDP and Green parties all loudly pledged that the 2015 election would be the last held in Canada under the first-past-the-post voting system, and those parties collectively received nearly two-thirds of the popular vote […]
