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Big XR News from Google, ChatGPT, Vodafone, and Seoul Metropolitan Government

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Google Parent Alphabet Lays Off 12,000 Jobs Late last week, Alphabet, Google’s parent firm, laid off roughly 12,000 individuals. The move accounts for around 6 percent of Google’s global workforce. Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees.

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Led by Former Oculus Exec, Facebook’s New Cloud Gaming Service Paves the Way to VR Streaming

Road to VR

For the purposes of our beta, that includes genres like sports, card, simulation, and strategy games. While other companies like Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, and Microsoft are building out their own cloud game streaming services, none of them have both a standalone VR headset and a major VR ecosystem for a complete end-to-end solution.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

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This allows decision-makers to work on immersive visualizations as part of their daily operations, such as reviewing iterations of a product or viewing a digitized urban area to simulate smart city initiatives. Data Integration : XR service providers integrate real-time data from digital twins into XR experiences.

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What is Spatial Computing in simple terms?

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Using this information, spatial systems can provide users access to data they can leverage to address issues and repair problems. It opens the door to new physical workflows, more valuable data insights, and opportunities for advanced automation. Google: Google and its parent company, Alphabet, are highly invested in spatial computing.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.25): Google to test AR glasses in the wild, Pico 4 spotted, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. What is relevant about this piece of news is that Google has just confirmed its strong commitment to augmented reality. More info (Google testing AR glasses?—?Official

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

Bernard Marr

Rather than simulating every aspect of natural intelligence like robots in movies, this simply refers to software algorithms that are able to learn – becoming better and better at carrying out one specific task as they are exposed to more data. Stable Diffusion 2 This is another text-to-image generative AI application.

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How Quantum Safe Is Your Business?

Bernard Marr

Imagine a future where all of today’s trusted methods of encrypting online data and communications – SSL, SSH, HTTPS and so on – are rendered ineffective. But companies including IBM, Amazon and Google already offer variations of quantum computing as-a-service , providing access to quantum resources via the cloud.