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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part I: Amazon

AR Insider

For example, Apple’s wearables are seeing strong revenue growth and offsetting smartphone revenue deceleration in the near term. We’ll start this Wearables Wars series by looking at Amazon. Specifically, its new Echo Buds are Bluetooth earpieces that compete with Google Pixel Buds and Apple AirPods. Ulterior Motive.

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The AR Space Race, Part VI: Amazon

AR Insider

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” continuing here with Amazon. Amazon inserted itself in this flow to drive transactions from visual searches.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part III: Google

AR Insider

For example, Apple’s wearables are seeing strong revenue growth and offsetting smartphone revenue deceleration in the near term. After examining Amazon and Microsoft , it’s time to zero in on Google. For Google that of course means search. But what’s everyone else doing? Sound Investment.

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The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google

AR Insider

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” Part I: Google . Where does Google fit in all of this? And like Google Lens, monetization is on the road map.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.15): Google confirms headset with Samsung, Ultraleap teases a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset.

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Amazon Targets Google, Meta Ad Spending with AR Shopping Update

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Amazon has recently introduced several new features for shoppers to find products from their mobile devices using augmented reality (AR) shopping technologies. The additions aim to challenge firms like Google, Pinterest, and others dominating the eCommerce search sector.

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The AR Space Race, Part VI: Amazon

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That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” continuing here with Amazon. namely Google and Niantic?—?simply Consumers can then scan QR codes to order items on Amazon.

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