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Why Amazon only got a $60,000 fine for a 'serious' labor violation

Mashable VR

On Monday, Washington State's department of labor and industries cited Amazon for "unsafe labor practices" at one of its fulfillment centers related to the "pace" Amazon requires its workers to keep up. For some context, Amazon is currently worth $300 – $400 billion. The punishment? And it has received a fine. Of $60,000.

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10 Highly-Anticipated VR Games We’re Excited To Play In 2021

VRScout

Instead of relying on artificial locomotion, this Indiana Jones-style puzzler has you navigating the virtual world by moving throughout your real-world environment. Room-scale VR adventure Eye of the Temple absolutely blew us away last year, offering one of the most unique free-roam VR experiences in recent memory.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Last week we had a first look at the controllers, while this week we had quite a confusing leak about its product line, which, if confirmed, would show an ambitious plan by the Chinese company. It features 11,000 movies and 4600 TV shows to choose from , including new blockbusters like Indiana Jones 5 or Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

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The most watched TV shows on your go-to streaming services this week. Yes, including 'Better Call Saul'.

Mashable VR

Starring Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke, Moon Knight follows Steven Grant, a museum gift shop worker who's forced to share a body with anti-hero Marc Spector, who is in turn controlled by a mean Egyptian moon God intent on using Spector as a kind of Earth-bound, justice-serving pawn. Credit: Richard Foreman / Amazon Studios. Outer Range.

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VRTO Reinvents the Tech Conference

VRScout

You know how federal agencies and corporations (Google, Facebook, Amazon, et al) can surveil you with impunity and track your habits? Among a roster of options, you could turn your environment into a green-and-black “matrix” or pilot a helicopter around the space using a controller.

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The business of being Victoria Paris

Mashable VR

But look any further than her green-billed brim and you'll find that Paris is a self-built entrepreneur of the digital era, with a million TikTok followers, six-figure deals with brands like Amazon and Anthropologie, and the financial freedom to buy whatever the f**k she wants. Paris Facetimes with best friend and fellow creator Antoni Bumba.

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Talking AI and Future of Work in XR — In a Truck — with Timoni West and Cole Crawford

XR for Business Podcast

If we’re on our phones and are watching YouTube, we’re going to Amazon or Netflix, — whatever it is — we’re back on the wireline side. Now all of a sudden, you are in control. So now Cole’s talking about this concept to the smart citizen who has ultimate control over their data. ” Sure.

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