Bernard Marr

MARCH 27, 2023

Or e-tailers like Amazon may make revenue from e-commerce while also acting as a marketplace where other sellers can offer their goods in exchange for a cut of the profits. It is behind the rise of companies like Google and Facebook, which match users to products and services using AI and analytics.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2019

Image Credit: Amazon. Sumerian by Amazon. Referred to as “hosts,” these digital chauffeurs act as tour guides throughout the scenes and can converse with users in a variety of languages using 50 different accents. The Varwin software interface is based on Google’s Blockly visual language.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

Past attempts have been unsuccessful, such as Google Glass, due to reluctance and concerns over ethical issues such as privacy and security of AR glasses. Fast-forward a few years from the failing Google Glass, and now it turns out the popularity of smart-glasses has increased again, thanks to numerous new developments.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. Notice that all of this refers to VR applications. There are between 20 and 30 million of Quest 2 out there, while only 1M of Quest 3.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Big names such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are rapidly developing the technology, making it accessible to many industries. Mobile AR refers to the Augmented Reality experiences that you create through mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets. Apple and Google played big roles in this.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 2, 2023

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. AWS Open Data Search – Another dataset search engine, this one, is provided by Amazon's AWS service.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 10, 2023

If, like many people, you’ve only just started taking notice of AI after coming across one of the most recent viral applications, you might be wondering how they relate to what we've traditionally referred to as "artificial intelligence."

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

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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AR Insider

APRIL 8, 2020

After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. For a frame of reference, Apple’s path to audio AR could follow its early iPhone progression in launching a developer platform and app store. But what’s everyone else doing?

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

These terms are simply used to refer to tools that allow anyone to create AI applications without having to get their hands dirty writing technical code. Amazon SageMaker. Amazon has extensive experience building and deploying ML models into consumer-facing use cases, and SageMaker aims to let anyone take advantage of that expertise.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. thanks to a better training). thanks to a better training).

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

These have evolved rapidly thanks to the emergence of online giants like Amazon and Google, digitally-native niche players like AirB’n’B, Expedia and Netflix, and heavy investment by established industry leaders such as Walmart and Tesco. It has also fundamentally affected many traditional business models.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Following a recent Christmas break where he says he studied a robot vacuum cleaner, tested all available voice-input devices for the home (such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers), and watched every Black Mirror episode, it was voice control that excited Sony’s head of Magic Lab the most.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Qualcomm is the company making almost all the chipsets and the reference designs upon which almost all XR headsets of nowadays are based upon. At the beginning of 2020, the American company will finalize its reference design based on this chipset, and in the second half of the year we will see the first headsets implementing this technology.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 25, 2023

Some are digital natives, like Amazon, and some switched to e-commerce models or adopted them to augment “traditional” retail models, such as Walmart and Tesco. Today, a wide spectrum of businesses, from social networks like Facebook to software services providers like Google, generate revenue by displaying advertising to their users.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 1, 2023

It refers to systems designed to respond to a particular set of inputs. Other examples of traditional AIs are voice assistants like Siri or Alexa, recommendation engines on Netflix or Amazon, or Google's search algorithm. Let’s unpack this question in the spirit of Bernard Marr’s distinctive, reader-friendly style.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Qualcomm releases XR2 5G reference design. Qualcomm has finally released the reference design for AR/VR headsets based on the XR2 chipset (a special version of the Snapdragon 865 for XR headsets), and it will pave the way for the standalone headsets of the future. (Image by Qualcomm). Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 12, 2023

Here’s a quick explainer: The term “AI” really refers to any machine system that attempts to carry out tasks intelligently. This refers to algorithms trained on data that are capable of making decisions based on what they know, and getting better as they learn more. Before that, he worked as an engineer at Google Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Youtuber Brad Lynch of the channel “Sadly It’s Bradley” has discovered, thanks to “a tip”, some references to a device codenamed “Deckard” inside some SteamVR firmware files. Analyzing the references, it seems that Deckard is a standalone VR headset. Valve is working on a standalone VR headset codenamed “Deckard”. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

Tilt Brush, Google 47. The Oculus Quest is available for preorders on Oculus website and on the website of selected partners (like Amazon and Best Buy). Oculus doesn’t ship to China, so the suggestion of Chinese magazine Yivian is to order it from Amazon US indeed and specify a Chinese address. Oculus Quest specs.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

NVIDIA is a strong partner of Qualcomm and surely this solution is made to be used with the future standalone headsets that will be powered by XR2 Reference Design. Valve is also releasing all the sources of the maps of the game as references for the devs to understand how to create their levels. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The reference to the tether is a clear statement about the fact that Sony aims at offering quality, and it is not interested in the casual gamers that are the target of the Quest (for now). Qualcomm announces AR Smart Viewer reference design. They are standard Quests , the ones you can buy on Amazon, BUT they have a business licensing.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This is huge news because all the most popular XR headsets that are on the market are based on Qualcomm’s reference designs, so here we are talking about a technology that will pave the way to the next generation of XR headsets. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. The Quest can be acquired in China from Amazon US , or from various resellers on Taobao. It can be bought on Oculus website, on partner e-commerce sites like Amazon or even in offline shops like Best Buys.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I can’t remember who said it first, but somebody once memorably and hilariously referred to AI-generated text apps like ChatGPT as “mansplaining as a service.” Google considers LLM-based ad landing pages to be spam, but seems unable or unwilling to detect and penalize it. [

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

V-eeRie’ is a compound word of 'VeeR' and 'Eerie', referring to VR experiences that are frightening and mysterious. Download VeeR VR Immersive on your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality and Google Daydream to experience the premium Halloween 360/VR contents. Challenge #2: Halloween VR Theater @Facebook Spaces.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. So convergence is beginning, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. So convergence is beginning, right?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

If you want to know more, you can refer to the official pages of the A6000 and A40. For more info, you can refer to NVIDIA’s official post on the matter. Basically, it is like Google Docs for artists. Check with OEM vendors for details on availability. Cloud XR lands on AWS. NVIDIA Omniverse is coming in open beta.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids. Amazon has just announced Glow, a product to make people interact and play with children remotely. This doesn’t seem to refer to what a competitor is announcing, so I speculate is one of the early prototypes of the upcoming Quest 2 Pro. NVIDIA CloudXR is now available on Google Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. The management of this digital map of the world is very complicated, and the acquisition of Umbra can be useful exactly for this, representing an important piece of the AR Cloud puzzle for Amazon. More info (Use Google Translate). Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

The sentence, as highlighted by Road To VR, may be a reference that it will be an enterprise headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Is Google collecting the pieces for an XR headset? Not much, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Straight after receiving the email I reached out to Pimax expressing my interest in testing their new Sword controllers, and provided references to some of my previous articles for Skarredghost. Google searches are very revealing. Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

More info (Sebastian’s Tweet) More info (Sebastian’s Tweet with answer by GermanRifter) More info (Google Cache for Bestware shop page for Cosmos). MacRumors report references to Starboard, that seems the menu to start the applications in augmented reality (Springboard is the name of the home screen of iPhone devices, as Upload reminds us).

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Bernard Marr

MAY 1, 2023

AI has been described as the most transformative technology of all time – by none other than Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Chatbots and virtual assistants: Providing advice, help and support to customers using natural language processing (NLP) technology similar to that used by Apple’s Siri or Amazon Alexa.

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