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Reality Bytes: Amazon, Warner Bros & Digital Assistants

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We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Amazon’s Wondery purchase, Warner Bros’ new film release strategy and Alexa learns to text. Amazon plans to acquire Wondery, the popular independent podcast maker, in hopes it will be the steroid shot Audible (owned by Amazon) needs to take on Spotify.

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VR Film Follows The First Female Shaman Of The Yawanawá People

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After viewing the VR film Collisions and recognizing the “spiritual compatibility” of VR & AR, Tashka Yawanawa, chief of the Yawanawá people, reached out to the projects director, Lynette Wallworth, to record a dying Tata’s last message, as well as witness the effects of his important work. Image Credit: Awavena VR.

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Amazon Picks Hexa for AR Digital Twin Packshots

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3D visualisation platform Hexa has partnered with Amazon Inc to expand its proprietary immersive operating system (OS). Hexa’s platform enables Amazon users to create, view, and store real-time 3D assets for virtual try-ons, augmented reality (AR) content, and 360-degree video.

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AR Smart Device Turns Your Favorite Goggles Into A Personal Swim Coach

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Enjoy your favorite TV/film and track your workout stats while you swim. A full-color display offers real-time data while you train, such as lap time and total distance covered. You can even download additional workouts and connect with your coach so that they can more easily track your progress. . Feature Image Credit: Vuzix Labs.

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Terrifying VR Living Room Shows How Smart Devices Are Manipulating Us

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Computers, voice assistants, smart TVs; all tools utilized on a day-to-day basis by major corporations such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook in order to mine private user data and manipulate consumer behavior. was explaining in detail how major corporations have been abusing our private data for monetary gain.

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XR Talks: What Will 5G Do For AR?

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“The big web-scale players like Google or Amazon [don’t] have data centers every 300 kilometers. the film industry). “[Edge compute] would have to be actually quite close to you in the network,” she said. But the phone companies do have that distributed network.” ” XR’s Best Friend.

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Alaska Airlines Begins Testing VR As First Class Entertainment

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Allosky claims the headset is also capable of playing user-owned content, as well as streaming on-demand services, such as Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime, just to name a few. This data would also show the impact passengers fully immersed in VR headsets and noise-cancelling headphones might have on the flow of inflight services.

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