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2020 was such a weird year and we’re getting out of it soon. But to look back at this year, we’re all going to remember the coronavirus health pandemic outbreak. It’s like something out of the movies, where in a very short period, all of our lives changed. We’re doing things drastically different today than what we were doing before 2020. With this health pandemic outbreak, there was one industry that proved to be a popular go-to for an escape.
Video games have been an escape for people from the start. It’s a great medium for storytelling and entertainment. That was something a lot of people needed during 2020 and for a lot of consumers out there, video games in 2020 might have been their first real step into the entertainment medium. We’ve seen quite a few issues with consoles, accessories, and hardware being out of stock. For Nintendo, a good part of that came from a massive video game launch.
The usually quiet sands were deluged by paranormal-seekers, and the National Trust was forced to dispatch rangers to the beach, which they own, to prevent overcrowding. Since then, monoliths have been found on Dartmoor and atop Glastonbury Tor, and, last weekend, at the centre of Merry Maidens stone circle, Cornwall.
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Monoliths could fill the gap in the public imagination left by crop circles. In Utah, authorities did not reveal the pillar s location because they did not want to tempt amateurs on a dangerous desert hike - but internet sleuths found it anyway, with the help of Google Earth s geolocation tool.
The unexplained, shimmering monolith discovered last month in the red-rock desert, southeastern Utah
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It is a fittingly wacky end to a truly bizarre year. Last month, in the rocky wilderness of the American Southwest, the birthplace of so many myths and cowboy legends, biologists surveying sheep in Utah’s Red Rock Country spotted a shiny object from a helicopter. Upon inspection, they discovered a shimmering, three-sided metal monolith, about 12ft high, in the middle of the desert. Images from Google Earth suggest it was placed there some time between 2015 and 2016.
Soon, copycat structures began sprouting up everywhere – at least 18 across Europe, the US and Australia, at the latest count. The trend reached Britain on December 6, when dog walkers on Compton Beach, on the Isle of Wight, happened across a mysterious reflective structure standing on a wooden plinth.
Augmented Reality Monolith At Ancient English Site Confuses UK Press
As the global fad continues, low-grade reflective monoliths have been discovered in the UK at Dartmoor, the Isle of Wight and Glastonbury Tor. The latest report grabbed by the tabloids is that Britain’s fourth monolith has been found at the Merry Maidens stone circle in Cornwall. However, unlike some coverage suggests, this monolith doesn’t and never did exist. Not physically anyway.
The error reported in some UK tabloids seems to have been prompted by a report by Cornwall Live , of a trial ‘augmented reality’ (AR) version of the monolith that has just been made available by scanning a QR code left at the center of the ancient site.