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How to stop Spotify from sharing your data, and why you should

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It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, but the wildly popular music streaming service in fact collects, stores, and shares reams of seemingly mundane user data, adding up to an intrusion that's much more than just the sum of its parts. There's no need to passively hand over your valuable personal data free of charge as well.

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FORM’s Premium Goggles Introduce AR To The Swimming Pool

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This data is then layered over the goggle’s lenses, offering users unobtrusive access to data before, during, and after their sessions. I competed in two Olympic Games: 2004 and 2012,” added Scott Dickens, Director of Strategic Partnerships at FORM. “At Image Credit: FORM. “I Image Credit: FORM. “I

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MIKE HIGHLIGHTS // VR Engineer?—?Alex Silkin

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He has been working in VR development since 2012, prior to the release of the first modern VR consumer headset, the Oculus Rift. I was very lucky to be at the right place at the right time when I met Nathan Burba and James Iliff who were pitching Project Holodeck as an Advanced Games project at USC in spring 2012.

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Witness The Discovery Of The God Particle In AR

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Available via The New York Times app, the AR experience was built on ARKit and ARCore using Atlas data from that infamous June, 2012 collision. Accompanying this breakdown is a free interactive augmented reality simulation of one of the particle collisions that helped contribute to the eventual discovery of the God Particle.

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XR Today’s Virtual Reality Guide for Enterprises

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In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. These experiences connect people to simulated virtual worlds, visualised data, and collaborative platforms to connect with others. VR Trends for 2022.

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Apple Podcasts is finally rolling out follower analytics to podcasters

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Apple is finally going to provide some crucial data about your show. Podcasters will be able to login to their Apple Podcasts Connect account, used to set up podcast distribution, and track the follower data from their shows under the Analytics tab. For example, it's taken 17 years for Apple to provide this follower data to podcasters!

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It’s Time To Develop A Consent Framework For Virtual Beings

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Tupac hologram performing at Coachella 2012 (Image Credit: SnoopDoggTV). On Identity and Training Agent Behavior on Personal Data. While there is an implied understanding that a user consents to be represented as a virtual being, it is important to articulate the extent to which personal data can be used.