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New Amazon Alexa feature will creepily mimic dead loved one's voices

Mashable VR

Your dead loved ones are never really gone, they're just trapped inside Amazon's voice-assisted devices. A spokesperson said in an email this is something Amazon has been exploring based on recent advancements in TTS (text-to-speech) technology. SEE ALSO: Amazon lets anyone answer Alexa questions. Trolls are loving it.

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AWS Powers Live AI-Ready Avatar Broadcast at MWC 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AWS is present at the Mobile World Congress (WDC) 2024 conference in Barcelona, Spain, this week, showing a new product just as the leading enterprise solutions provider moves towards providing a robust spatial computing ecosystem. AWS also provides Identity and Federation services to ensure secure user data and account functionalities.

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MIT Researchers Test Autonomous Drones Using VR Training Grounds

VRScout

Now, with a new a dawn in parcel transportation just beyond the horizon (see Amazon Prime Air ), engineers and developers have begun doubling-down on their efforts to develop more efficient autonomous quadcopters. You can’t learn in that environment. During early testing phases of the new system, the results were promising.

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

VRWorld

With the conference being over a month away, NVIDIA sent out a press release announcing the conference. The conference starts on Monday, May 8th, and lasts until Thursday, May 11th. This year, NVIDIA reshuffled the conference format in a bid to ensure continuous coverage of the conference.

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Beyond ChatGPT: 14 Mind-blowing AI Tools Everyone Should Be Trying Out Now

Bernard Marr

In reality, when we use the term AI today, we are usually referring to a technology known as "machine learning." Now the latest breed of AI applications offers us the chance to use it for just about any task we can think of. So, let’s take a look at some of them: What Are The “Killer Apps” Everyone Should Know about?

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Caregility Opens XR Solution at Saudi’s Seha Virtual Hospital

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

These include Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Caregility Joins Informa’s Arab Health Conference 2023 The news comes as the Eatontown, New Jersey-based company expands its operations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

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Sony’s Richard Marks Expects Natural Voice Input to Play Major Role in VR’s Future

Road to VR

Following a recent Christmas break where he says he studied a robot vacuum cleaner, tested all available voice-input devices for the home (such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers), and watched every Black Mirror episode, it was voice control that excited Sony’s head of Magic Lab the most.