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Amazon to Begin Selling VR Apps Through New HTC Partnership

Road to VR

Amazon will soon begin selling VR apps on its massive digital marketplace through a new partnership with HTC. The company’s partnership with Amazon will allow customers to buy Viveport apps directly on the Amazon marketplace. In addition, consumers will have a new way to discover and purchase titles on Amazon.

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‘Ready Player One’ Book Sequel ‘Ready Player Two’ Arrives This November

VRScout

Ernest Cline returns with a follow-up to his 2011 sci-fi cult favorite. Exciting new for all you Ready Player fans. Penguin Random House imprint Ballantine Books today confirmed that a follow-up to Ernest Cline’s breakout hit Ready Player One will be arriving on store shelves this November. Famine, mass poverty, those sorts of things.

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Bigscreen’s ‘VR Cinema’ Showing Interstellar, Star Trek, Transformers, & More This Month

Road to VR

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). Think of the service like renting a movie from Amazon, but you watch virtually in a public theater in the style of the movie. Star Trek Beyond (2016). Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). Interstellar (2014). January 17th to 24th. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). Ghost in the Shell (2017).

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Top 10 TV Shows that Feature Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

ARVR

Rent or own it : Amazon 3. Rent or own it : YouTube | Google | iTunes | Vudu | Amazon Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Black Mirror | 2011–2019 | Drama/Sci-fi | 5 Seasons Black Mirror explores various upcoming technologies and their potential impact on society. Rent or own it : YouTube | Google | Vudu | Amazon 9.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

To give a bit of context, voice-based assistants have been around for over 60 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they picked up popular use with the introduction of smart home devices such as Google Home, and Amazon Echo. “It’s in 2011, defeating the champions and winning the prize of $1M.

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The 5 Best Games for PlayStation VR

Road to VR

If you’re thinking about picking up the game but don’t have a PSVR Aim controller, skip the bundle—at this point it’s usually cheaper to buy the game [Amazon] and PSVR Aim [Amazon] separately. Farpoint on PlayStation Store. PSVR Aim highly recommended]. Read Our Review. 3 – Firewall Zero Hour. Read Our Review.

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Delivery Hero and AWS: Cost Optimization in the Cloud

Bernard Marr

For Delivery Hero, the situation was a little different as it has been cloud-native since its founding in 2011. One of these was increasing the use of “spot instances” – an AWS feature that allows its customers to utilize spare cloud computing capacity (Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute) at significantly reduced costs.