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Amazon Lets Shoppers Donate to Anti-Abortion and Conversion Therapy Groups

GizModo VR

AmazonSmile, which launched in 2013, would seem to be one of the mega-corporation’s less overtly awful functions: it’s a simple service that adds a surcharge to Amazon purchases and donates it to a participating charity of a shopper’s choice. However, UK-based media organization openDemocracy has found among those… Read more.

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Wearing Apple Vision Pro With Glasses Works, But It's Risky

Upload VR

I've been a bespectacled individual for a very long time, and back when I bought the Oculus Rift DK1 in 2013, it was arguably the only player in the game in terms of consumer level VR hardware. That headset came packaged with three sets of interchangeable aspherical lenses offering varying degrees of vision correction.

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My Professional Highlights of 2019

VirtualiTeach

I have presented at GESS since 2013, won their awards twice and now I even judge the awards. I spoke at a lot of conferences in 2019 but as the year came to a close, I was invited to fly to Saudi Arabia and deliver the closing keynote to a group of G20 delegates visiting King Faisal School in Riyadh. Amazon links to both are below –.

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Open Haptics Ecosystem: unlock a tremendous value for the haptics market

ARVR

Haptx gloves have been in development since 2013, they are at the stage of development kit today. the XR Haptics working group I chair with Chris made incredible strides in only 6 months. Market suggestions : Amazon is using haptics in their app when converting from the search list to the checkout. And it works!

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. If Google is all-in on AR, Apple’s all-in, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart — like, every major company in the world gets it. So, it’s coming. Paul: Yeah. Without a doubt.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. If Google is all-in on AR, Apple’s all-in, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart — like, every major company in the world gets it. So, it’s coming. Paul: Yeah. Without a doubt.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH's Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. If Google is all-in on AR, Apple's all-in, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart -- like, every major company in the world gets it. So, it's coming. Paul: Yeah. Without a doubt. Alan: You know what?

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