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What the EU Digital Markets Act may mean for XR

The Ghost Howls

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple. Fairer competition.

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Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Following last week’s theme of layoffs across the tech sector, this week continues the unemployment trend as influential groups reassess the space and US Courts aim at Google. US Justice Department Against Google The US Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Alphabet, Google’s parent company, this Wednesday.

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XR Talks: Defining the AR Cloud, Part II

AR Insider

The spatial computing-focused privacy expert believes that industry self-governance will be more impactful. Google’s Justin Quimby says this is okay as long as there are common languages — again like HTML today. For an example of what not to do, Facebook practices lots of lip service about policies and self-regulation.

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Spatial Beats: 2020’s Top Ten

AR Insider

Now what’s going to happen to the malls Amazon doesn’t want as warehouses? Russian government hackers piggybacked on cybersecurity software (!!!!) to penetrate deep into hundreds of government and corporate systems. I’d put Apple in the top ten also for its introduction of lidar (3D depth scans) on the new iPad.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Image by Epic Games).

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Rapidus Wants to Supply 2nm Chips to Tech Giants, Challenge TSMC

Anand Tech

But Rapidus, a semiconductor consortium backed by the Japanese government and large conglomerates, plans to leapfrog several generations of nodes and start 2nm production in 2027. As demand from Japanese companies alone may not suffice, Rapidus is looking for orders from international corporations like Apple, Google, and Meta. "We

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There's no need to freak out over Elon Musk buying Twitter. He's all hype.

Mashable VR

Musk's fans may admire him for building SpaceX, a space exploration company, however, that company's success was made possible through billions in government funding — subsidies Musk later said shouldn't exist (for others, of course). Apple and Google have an absolute stranglehold on the mobile market. That's ridiculous.

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