GizModo VR

AUGUST 28, 2020

Major fires in the Brazilian Amazon are being set at an unprecedented rate. 25, 2020, more than 500 major forest fires blazed across roughly 912,000 acres, new satellite data from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) shows. That’s on par with the inferno that’s consumed California … Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 19, 2021

Amazon is reportedly planning to open its largest retail stores yet, with sites in Ohio and California apparently coming first.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 28, 2021

It’s well documented that some Amazon employees work in grueling , physically taxing , and unsafe conditions. In fact, a former Amazon warehouse employee in California has sued the company for not allowing its workers to take their full mandated meal or rest breaks, even though it discounts time for the former in their… Read more.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2023

The accessories were built by Razer in collaboration with ResMed , a San Diego, California-based medical equipment company that knows its way around all-day comfort. There’s no word on pricing, but knowing Razer, it’s definitely going to beat the third-party white label products awash on Amazon and eBay.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 3, 2022

Amazon has decided to close many of its brick-and-mortar retail stores and pop-up shops. As Reuters reports , Amazon plans to call it a day at all 68 branded stores in the U.S. Amazon is set to turn off the lights on "various dates" at these locations, notifying customers through signage at individual stores.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 14, 2020

The question of whether Amazon can be held liable for faulty products that are sold on its Marketplace by third-parties is one that the e-commerce giant has wanted to settle for a long time. It got a little closer to an answer on Thursday when a California state appeals court ruled that, at least in the Golden State,… Read more.

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VRScout

MARCH 16, 2019

Recently, reports have begun circulating that the availability of Oculus Rift headsets have been on the decline the past few weeks, disappearing entirely from Amazon, Microsoft, and Best Buy. GDC 2019 takes place March 18th to the 22nd at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Oculus Quest / Image Credit: Oculus.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2020

Amazon’s dopey looking delivery robots—which have been roving around parts of California and Washington—are now being deployed in two more states, and they’re bringing their human babysitters along with them. Read more.

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VRScout

MARCH 7, 2020

FaceTime, WhatsApp, Skype, as well as devices such as Facebook Portal and Amazon Echo Show, are popular ways for families to stay connected. For example, a boy and his grandfather raced and played with Hot Wheels cars side-by-side from separate locations. .

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ARPost

APRIL 17, 2023

AWE USA 2023 When: May 31 – June 2 Where: Santa Clara, CA, US; and virtual Late spring/early summer is a great time to be in California. Some of the most important Fortune 500 companies will be represented at the event, including Boeing, Canon, Shell, Amazon, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 13, 2022

After years of setbacks, Amazon is finally launching its drone delivery service later this year. On Monday, the tech giant announced that it would be piloting this service in Lockeford, California following approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and local officials. Credit: Amazon.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 26, 2022

Less than two months after California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a massive lawsuit that accused the company of creating a “hostile work environment” for Black employees, more testimony about the company’s allegedly toxic work culture has emerged. Don't fall for it.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. Since the launch, they’ve created augmented reality experiences for COVID-19 and California wildfire news stories. Venture capital investment in augmented reality and virtual reality hit $4.1

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VRScout

JULY 29, 2019

We’ve seen a lot of bizarre VR adaptations over the past couple of years, whether it be the confusing VR sequel to the classic 1993 Bill Murray film, Groundhog Day , or a surprisingly-physical location-based VR experience centered around the Jack Ryan Amazon series. . In virtual reality, you need to have presence.”.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Amazon’s foray into grocery store technology provides a succinct introduction into the state of the industry. Amazon’s first act was its Amazon Go store, which opened in Seattle in early 2018. When customers enter an Amazon Go store, they swipe the Amazon app at the entrance, enabling Amazon to link purchases to their accounts.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And, according to the current iteration of the agenda, Inbar’s keynote has the same theme as the one we saw in California in June. Other big companies include HTC Vive , HaptX , Niantic , and Amazon. If you know the flow of AWE in the States, you’ll spot some similarities and differences. So Much More to See at AWE EU 2022.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 26, 2022

She started Homebound to make home-building easier and more accessible after a wildfire ripped through Northern California and thousands of people were put on years-long waiting lists to get started building their homes. Our Found podcast had a particularly interesting episode this week — Nikki Pechet joins as a guest.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. A first step for Amazon.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

The San Jose, California-based company’s chips are used for bionic visualisations in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) kit and offer multi-sensor interfaces, high resolution and frame rate displays as well as enhancement technologies.

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ARVR

JUNE 30, 2020

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 In response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal and GDPR, California lawmakers enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which provides consumers greater control over how their personal information is collected, stored, and sold. GDPR, Europe’s data privacy and security law.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

A slew of Amazon workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver, and Southern California are looking into unionizing, emboldened by their Alabama coworkers’ high-profile union campaign , Bloomberg reported Friday. Read more.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2022

via the Meta Store in 22 countries as well as Best Buy and Amazon in the US. You can try the device out for yourself at the Meta Store in Burlingame, California beginning October 14th, or at Adobe Max in Los Angeles October 18th – 20th. The Meta Quest Pro will be available for purchase on October 25th for $1,499.99

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Bernard Marr

APRIL 17, 2023

This means that a business might have service agreements in place with, for example, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. This objective is set out in a paper published in 2021 by the University of California, Berkley professors Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker, titled From Cloud Computing to Sky Computing.

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Mashable VR

MAY 27, 2022

— Alison Foreman, Entertainment Reporter How to watch: Before Stonewall is available for rent or purchase on Amazon Prime Video and iTunes. How to watch: Moonlight is streaming on Showtime and Kanopy , and available for rent or purchase on Amazon Prime Video and iTunes. How to watch : Rift is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the educational district, I was able to enter the big virtual campus of the University of California and navigate all of it. Some of the worlds are also worth visiting: the virtual campus of the University of California was very big, and I was impressed by the fact that it featured almost its whole campus.

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GizModo VR

MAY 19, 2021

After a week of proceedings, the criminal trial for attorney Steven Donziger—who won a multibillion-dollar case against Chevron over pollution in the Amazon rainforest—wrapped up on Monday. In his estimation, the trial was a “charade.” And yet he was relatively pleased with the outcome. Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services—Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, and HBO Max—can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month , most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away—and io9 is here… Read more.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The issue of air pollution is often disregarded unless it's really bad — say, the apocalyptic orange skies and heavy smoke produced by the 2020 California fires, which caused immediate health effects like stinging eyes, coughing, and headaches. What is the best air purifier on the market?

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ARVR

APRIL 14, 2021

Streamlining the In-Store Experience With Smart Shopping Carts Last year, Amazon introduced the Dash Cart, which is a smart shopping cart that makes in-store shopping faster and more enjoyable. The Dash Cart will appear first in Amazon’s Woodland Hills grocery store in California and then start branching out to other stores.

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Mashable VR

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In 2007, two researchers at the University of California, San Diego decided to study the likelihood of knot formation by tumbling a piece of string inside a plastic box. IMAGE: Amazon. 169 from Amazon. IMAGE: Amazon. 249 from Amazon. IMAGE: Amazon. from Amazon. IMAGE: Amazon. IMAGE: Amazon.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 25, 2023

Attorney generals from eight states—California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia—have joined the litigation. The news comes as the US Government cracks down on Big Tech companies such as Meta Platforms, Amazon, and Apple, among others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2023

This includes the company’s long list of clients: Coca-Cola, British Telecom (BT), ScotRail, Amazon, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Five Guys, and the Royal Air Force. The announcement comes ahead of the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2023 in Santa Clara, California.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 2, 2023

AWS Open Data Search – Another dataset search engine, this one, is provided by Amazon's AWS service. UCI Machine Learning Repository – A repository of more than 600 open datasets curated and maintained by the University of California, Irvine, and made available for the purpose of training machine learning algorithms.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 30, 2022

A sneak peek dropped in November gives us enough to go on (we're heading to California!), The Boys Season 3, Amazon Prime Video, June 3. Across two seasons of The Boys on Amazon Prime Video, we have seen some fabulously wild s**t. How to watch: The Boys Season 3 streams on Amazon Prime Video June 3. — A.R.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 27, 2019

Exploring how conversational interfaces, like Amazon Alexa, can provide remote audiences with access to an exhibition experience at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Project lead: Nina Simon | Santa Cruz, California | @santacruzmah , @OFBYFOR_ALL. Exploring the Gallery Through Voice – Alley Interactive. Project lead: T.J.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 16, 2021

HyperX Sale | Amazon HyperX Sale | Best Buy Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 28, 2017

The Get Qurious Maker Box is available at new b8ta stores in Palo Alto, California; Seattle, Washington; and Santa Monica, California It’s also for sale online on Marbles The Brain store and Amazon. What’s been left out is the physical play. This is a new way of play.”.

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