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Data Dive: 170 Million People Use Snap Scan

AR Insider

It does this through partners, such as identifying physical products (with Amazon), solving math problems (with PhotoMath), and suggesting recipes given the items in your fridge (with Allrecipes). It could be a better mousetrap for finding out more about a new restaurant — or booking a reservation — by pointing your phone at it.

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I canceled my Amazon Prime membership. You can, too.

Mashable VR

You can quit Amazon Prime. I did it in 2020, in response to Amazon firing user experience designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa. Some of those workers went on strike, demanding hazard pay, adequate sick leave, protective gear, and transparency about the number of coronavirus cases in each Amazon warehouse.

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Gift Guide: Extremely Online books

TechCrunch VR

If you can’t read a good book without stopping every few pages to tweet about it, you might be what we call Extremely Online. Here are some relatively recent books that confront everything from the rise of TikTok to a fictional metaverse gone wrong. This book did that to me. ” Price: $18 from Amazon.

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Here’s what you need to know about Intel Evo Week on Amazon

Mashable VR

The Intel Evo Week on Amazon shopping event has arrived and now is your chance to score great deals on laptops pushing the boundaries of performance, connectivity, responsiveness, and style. During Intel Evo Week on Amazon (March 13-20), snag an even better price on these high-end laptops. Samsung Electronics Galaxy Book.

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XR Talks: Follow the Money for AR’s Trajectory

AR Insider

For Amazon , it’s selling us stuff. We’ve examined evidence from each of the Big 5 in individual articles, a report , and a chapter in Charlie Fink’s book Convergence. Amazon meanwhile wants to be the commerce layer. Just like Amazon, it ceded ground to Apple and Google early in the smartphone wars.

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What does Chat GPT Mean for Enterprise-Grade XR?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In December, Ammaar Reshi created and sold a children’s book that he wrote using Chat GPT and physically published via Amazon Kindle Publishing in an exceedingly short time period. Chat GPT leverages knowledge from various channels to compile general-purpose aggregated data the bot writes in a chosen style or format.

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All In On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big With Artificial Intelligence

Bernard Marr

These all-in companies are the subject of the latest book from two authors who are quickly building reputations as authoritative voices in the field of AI. These [all-in] companies hire data scientists, machine learning engineers, and so on. Nitin Mittal, meanwhile, is head of the Analytics and AI Practice at Deloitte Consulting.