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Amazon agrees to allow warehouse employees phone access permanently

Mashable VR

Amazon has overturned its own ban and will now let warehouse employees keep their cell phones with them while they work, a move following months of criticism aimed at the company. "We SEE ALSO: Amazon's phone ban criticized in wake of Illinois warehouse collapse. Inside the Staten Island fulfilment center.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.28): Valve Index is now available immediately, Oculus and Magic Leap update their devices and much more!

The Ghost Howls

controllers-only) still have longer waiting times , but the situation is changing from them as well. Valve was partnering with Flex to produce its headsets in Illinois, but now a source of mine says that only the base stations result made in USA. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). The other kits (e.g.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? But then you put the controller down. They’ve never used these controllers before.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? But then you put the controller down. They’ve never used these controllers before.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms' Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because--. But more to the point, when you're doing soft skills work, the controller is useless, Because again, when I talk to you, I don't point a controller at you and click. But then you put the controller down.