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You need a $200 Stem Player to hear Ye's new album 'Donda 2'

Mashable VR

It's not surprising that Ye would want to create a unique and innovative way to disrupt music streaming — he did, after all, turn down $100 million from Apple Music , and announced on his Instagram that he wouldn't be allowing Apple, Amazon, Spotify, or YouTube to host his new album on their platforms.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part IV: Bose

AR Insider

For example, Apple’s wearables are seeing strong revenue growth and offsetting smartphone revenue deceleration in the near term. After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. Think of it like primitive iPhone apps circa 2008, before we got Waze, Foursquare and Uber. Next up: Apple.

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What Does Tech History Tell Us About AR’s Future?

AR Insider

And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. And a constellation of wearables fits another key Apple M.O.:

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The AR Show: What Does Tech History Tell Us About AR’s Future?

AR Insider

And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. And a constelation of wearables fits another key Apple M.O.:

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OpenSim active users hit all-time-high for the holidays

Hypergrid Business

The team will continue to build for Apple Vision Pro and other immersive VR devices in the future once the mobile app is complete and shows traction. The three oldest grids in OpenSim that are still active today are OSgrid , founded in 2007, 3rd Rock Grid , founded in 2008, and AnSky , founded in 2009. The rest can win in-game tokens.

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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch VR

I’ve been searching for an intuitive foundation-shade-finder tool since launching Cult Beauty in 2008, and nothing has lived up to the experience of having a professional match you in daylight until I discovered MIME,” says Alexia Inge, founder of Cult Beauty.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.