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Google Parent Firm Alphabet to Lay Off 12,000 Jobs

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Google parent company Alphabet announced layoffs on Friday of roughly 12,000 workers, totalling 6 percent of its global workforce. The news comes just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. The company recently began beta testing for its Google Glass follow-up across the US in July last year.

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Why are Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality the Perfect XR Pair?

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Virtual reality combines hardware and software to immerse users in digital environments for numerous use cases, including learning, entertainment, therapy, and others. Blending VR and AI in the New World For example, the travel, tourism, and healthcare sectors have leveraged AI virtual assistants to guide people in virtual environments.

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The Quick Guide to Augmented Reality Deployment in the Enterprise

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Today, we can safely claim that its implications are more serious and mainstream, spanning industries such as healthcare , manufacturing, and education. Healthcare. In the last five years, augmented reality technology has evolved far beyond its most widespread adoption ever – killing digital critters on Pokémon Go.

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Could the 2020s Be the Decade When AR Glasses Replace the Smartphone?

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The nature of AR technology gives us the ability to experience and create exciting new opportunities, dramatically impacting the way we interact and communicate with one another, giving birth to new applications and hardware. Creating visually appealing glasses integrated with hardware is quite a challenge.

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

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All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. Apple is also adding hardware to its iPhones that hint at a headset-based future.

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BetterMe's 'Childhood Trauma Test' is all over TikTok. Here's why you shouldn't take it.

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BetterMe is a Ukrainian subscription-based behavioral healthcare platform with two products: BetterMe Health Coaching and BetterMe Mental Health. BetterMe shares this data with third parties including Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Snapchat. The tags "trauma test" and "childhood trauma test" have 12.7 million views respectively.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.11): Upload VR Showcase, Metaverse Safety Week, and much more!

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Its interest is especially in the industrial, healthcare, and remote gatherings fields. More info You can do full body tracking in VR using your phone A guy published on YouTube a guide on how to use a body-tracking algorithm (based on Google MediaPipe) running on the phone to trigger full body movements in VRChat.