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Walmart Rolls Out AR Shopping App

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Further accessibility options for people with disabilities such as gesture controls and voice-based guidance for low-vision people were also added, Walmart explained. The app’s other features include haptic feedback to allow customers to experience enhanced manoeuvrability while using the app and add realism.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

DeMiroz paints a bright picture: we should expect all-in-one mobile headsets with full positional tracking and gesture control glory… soon. IN CANADA YOU CAN BUY A CASE OF BEER WITH A VR HEADSET & WATCH HOCKEY. DREAMSCAPE IMMERSIVE RAISES $11.36M SERIES A. DO RECENT GOOGLE JOB LISTINGS INDICATE UPCOMING MASS PRODUCTION?

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Leaked Input Device May Explain Why Investors Just Dropped $120 Million into Thalmic Labs

Road to VR

Thalmic Labs, makers of the gesture control armband MYO may be working on a new VR controller, a wristband device which senses the position of your fingers. The company is teasing new products after closing a whopping $120 million Series B investment.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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