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

XR Today - Big XR News tag

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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XR Talks: Defining the AR Cloud, Part II

AR Insider

The spatial computing-focused privacy expert believes that industry self-governance will be more impactful. Google’s Justin Quimby says this is okay as long as there are common languages — again like HTML today. For an example of what not to do, Facebook practices lots of lip service about policies and self-regulation.

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Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Right

ARVR

Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 2. Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video | Hulu Did you know the first virtual reality headset was created over 50 years ago? Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 4.

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What the EU Digital Markets Act may mean for XR

The Ghost Howls

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. And the same holds for Google, which is applying similar restrictions.

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Spatial Beats: 2020’s Top Ten

AR Insider

Now what’s going to happen to the malls Amazon doesn’t want as warehouses? Russian government hackers piggybacked on cybersecurity software (!!!!) to penetrate deep into hundreds of government and corporate systems. Have the streaming services won? The hack of the century. Magic Leap’s pivot to enterprise.

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

Bernard Marr

Governments, research institutions, private companies, and non-governmental organizations all routinely make data freely available for research and even commercial purposes. AWS Open Data Search – Another dataset search engine, this one, is provided by Amazon's AWS service.

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How Are US Regulators Affecting Big Tech’s XR Plans?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The United States (US) Justice Department launched a lawsuit against Google’s parent company Alphabet on Tuesday, reports revealed. According to the lawsuit, Google earns roughly 80 percent of its earnings from advertising. According to the lawsuit, Google earns roughly 80 percent of its earnings from advertising.