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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part II: Microsoft

AR Insider

After examining Amazon last week, it’s time to zero in on Microsoft. In addition to standard audio fare like music and phone calls, they’ll integrate natively with Microsoft products like Office. ’ It turns out that its motivations are similar to Amazon’s. Microsoft had a similar fate in smartphone era.

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Power and Responsibility: Highlights from Microsoft Build

Tech Trends VR

We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what they should do,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his opening keynote at Build. As cloud based applications scale and power AI experiences, we have come to a place where you need data at planet scale and performance Click To Tweet. Ethical AI.

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Mozilla is Shutting Down Development on WebXR Social App ‘Hubs’

Road to VR

A tool to download user data will be released on April 1st, the company says. The company emphasizes that its so-called ‘Community Edition’ of Hubs can run on any platform that supports Kubernetes, which includes a majority of cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

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The Real Reasons For Big Tech Layoffs At Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon

Bernard Marr

Microsoft, which is reported to have laid off around 10,000 employees, practically simultaneously announced that it plans to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, the creators of the viral application ChatGPT. Together, four of the biggest tech companies – Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft – have cut 50,000 jobs.

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20+ Amazing (And Free) Data Sources Anyone Can Use To Build AIs

Bernard Marr

This refers to applications that use algorithms (a set of instructions) to become increasingly good at performing a particular task as it is exposed to more and more data relating to that task. What types of data are there? Business data is commonly divided into one of two categories – internal and external data.

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Metaverse and Investing – Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 2: Software and Infrastructure

ARPost

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AltspaceVR. Microsoft again, because some time ago they bought AltspaceVR , a VR social platform that was on the verge of bankruptcy. Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) for Servers. This might sound obvious, but all this amount of data must be stored somewhere.

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How Different XR Companies Approach Cloud Services

ARPost

The RealWear Cloud also allows data analysis across headsets. Handling this data for an individual on an individual headset is possible but, again, becomes unbearable at scale sans cloud. Likewise, AutoDesk offers its XR cloud services through a partnership with Amazon. Not all XR companies offer their own cloud services.