GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The highest court in Ecuador ruled last week that Indigenous communities in the country should have a stronger say over extractive projects like oil drilling and mining that affect their ancestral lands. Read more.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 17, 2022

However, civil liberties experts and privacy groups are understandably worried about the use of such technology. A few years ago, Amazon was slammed by human rights organizations for selling its facial recognition technology to law enforcement. The surveillance state is easily scooping up your personal identifying information.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Pre-orders will also be available to the general public in October through Amazon, Mediamarkt, The Very Group, and Coolblue. For more information, head on over to the Pico website. Members of this program can pre-order the device through various online retailers such as Bestware, VR Expert, System Active, and Elkjop.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2024

In classroom learning environments, mentors can display crucial learning information that is usually restricted to PowerPoint presentations as engaging immersive visualisations. ” XR solutions can also help boost pre-existing training procedures, from classroom learning to simulation training. .”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

“The traditional format of learning, often with one expert sharing information, is instructor-centric and falls short on efficiently imparting ‘hands-on’ training content,” says Rui Xin Oh, Senior Project Manager at INVNT. However, immersive learning technologies have been changing this narrative.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock. During the event, AWS VP Matt Wood conducted a live broadcast, allowing him to interact with a group of attendees identified as MWC 2024. This system uses holographic AI avatars displayed on a large-scale kiosk.

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AR Insider

MAY 29, 2020

A well-informed decision, in turn, translates into a significantly lower return rate — a win-win for both a buyer and a happy customer. With the spending power of $143 billion , Gen-Zers are becoming a much-coveted group for retailers and e-commerce stores. Reach New Customers. Take it from the e-commerce giants.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Unity has already sent an email to all of us to say that the distribution of the Beta will start next month (July) and will be gradual starting from a small group of developers. Thanks to Hexa, Amazon can so show the 3D model of the items it is selling , and also provide virtual try-on features.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. We won with our heart, the big heart of us Italians. News from partners (and friends).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Allosky claims the headset is also capable of playing user-owned content, as well as streaming on-demand services, such as Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime, just to name a few. No word though on whether users will be able to access their personal subscriptions while onboard. Their answer? Limit the VR trials to strictly First Class passengers.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 12, 2023

Research suggests that while there are around 700 billion different variations of products on sale at Amazon, Expedia customers have to pick out what they’re looking for from 1.26 So it’s interesting to see that Expedia Group has become one of the first major e-commerce operators to build ChatGPT into its app.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Iribe will lead the PC side, while Jon Thomason, who was formerly VP of Engineering at Qualcomm for five years and then VP of Mobile Shipping at Amazon before joining Oculus as Head of Software in August of this year, will head up the mobile division. For more information, the full statement has been posted on the official Oculus blog.

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ARVR

APRIL 14, 2021

Streamlining the In-Store Experience With Smart Shopping Carts Last year, Amazon introduced the Dash Cart, which is a smart shopping cart that makes in-store shopping faster and more enjoyable. The Dash Cart will appear first in Amazon’s Woodland Hills grocery store in California and then start branching out to other stores.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 17, 2020

But it also includes Disney, Google Earth, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple. “It let me in the door to meet the right people to get in to the group that was building the Hololens before anybody knew what it was it was. “It’s a function of how much energy your radios need to transmit the same amount of information.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Digging more into details, I discovered that “metaverse” here is used kinda improperly because, with that word, it is meant “deployment of predictive maintenance on installations”, which is actually a mix of AI and digital twin for predictions and AR for visualization of maintenance information.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Here’s a brief teaser for TendAR : Gorman said that they’re not planning on storing or saving any of the emotional recognition data on their side, and this is the first time that I’ve ever heard anything about Google’s Human Sensing group. How will Privacy Policies be updated to account for Biometric Data?

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 10, 2017

Pacific, include the ChangHigh Sisters Fireshow of Light, Life and Love , SingerGirl XOXOXO , Amazon Ballet, DJ Pilou, and TatianaCoin. The two were elected by the members of the SLexit group in OpenSim, with assistance from the members of the OpenSim Embassy group in Second Life. ” OpenSim Embassy in Second Life. .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

They’ve also enlightened attendees with information on AI, blockchain, 5G, and the metaverse. This year, the Immerse Global Summit is evolving thanks to a partnership with Synapse Orlando, a group dedicated to fostering innovation in Florida’s thriving tech community. What is MetaCenter Global Week?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I think that for a small startup that is shipping its first product, it may make a lot of sense: for a company of that size, it is better to handle a smaller group of high-paying customers than doing the opposite. Also the price is getting closer to that plan, with the device now expected to retail for $1300. Wait, what???

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Mashable VR

APRIL 29, 2022

When the director of the program stepped up with more information, Musk went silent on the issue. Even Amazon ended up giving Parler the boot from its Amazon Web Services hosting platform. 2021, Musk told the U.N.'s s World Food Programme that if they provided him with a plan of action, he'd donate $6 billion to make it happen.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

BMW Group Taps Meta for XR Car Gaming System BMW Group USA and Meta Platform’s Reality Labs division have announced a partnership to develop an automotive VR/MR solution. We designed Campfire to solve a basic human challenge that XR technology uniquely solves – the difficulty of communicating 3D information.

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HaptX

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Converge Robotics Group reached the finals of the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition for an avatar system that can transport human dexterity to a remote location in real-time. For more information on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE, the Finalist teams, and ANA, please visit avatar.xprize.org. About Converge Robotics Group.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Most probably the device fuses the image of the 4 tracking cameras with the color information of the 16MP RGB camera to provide a high-resolution RGB passthrough. More information on Pico 4 Pro is for sure to come at AWE EU on October 20-21. The fact that there is an RGB camera means that this device features RGB passthrough vision.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

In particular, AR places 3D models into real situations and adds contextual information to a camera display or headphones. Algorithms extract features from the marker, including the size and position, and use that information to correspond virtual objects with the real-world environment. Top 3 Types of AR-Enabled Hearables.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Linden Research a.k.a. Linden Labs is in the process of being acquired.

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EON Reality

JUNE 18, 2019

Overall, the group talked about an array of both research and commercial products from industry sectors that are increasingly deploying immersive technology solutions to save money and stay ahead. — the EON Reality team also had the privilege of chairing a panel that included Ed Andersen, KPMG’s Head of Development in Manchester.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 11, 2022

After an association of women's groups and historians, led by the National Women's History Alliance (then the National Women's History Project), successfully lobbied for national recognition in 1980 , the week of March 8th became National Women’s History Week. UPDATE: Mar. 11, 2022, 2:15 p.m.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

His ideas are enhancing the real world with digital information that helps people achieve higher levels of efficiency, and creating new opportunities in fields such as engineering, communications, and healthcare.”. and Asian patents, as well as two granted European patents and more than a dozen European patent applications.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We’ll note the date of major updates to our lists and you can email tips@uploadvr.com with information about interesting places popping up in virtual reality. You can watch Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, and YouTube with others using Bigscreen. Best Movie Theater. Best Golf Course. Pebble Beach – Golf+.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. It would be used to help people with vision impairments , for instance by projecting sensible information about the environment in a way that the damaged eye can see.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

After one month from its official announcement, Facebook has released the Oculus Quest 2, that from the 13th of this month can be purchased online on the Oculus Store or on official resellers (like Amazon) or offline on partner stores (like Best Buy). The video is funny, informative, and inspiring, and I highly suggest you watch it.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Or when the two-day shipping on Amazon Prime doesn’t seem fast enough.” The idea here is to inform, entertain and stir a genuinely impactful feeling among people who are then liable to connect those feelings with that brand. So, folks, the pursuit of happiness is truly the mantra of life! is exactly the focal point of this concept.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Every time a haptics startup or project is halted, that information generated during its active years is lost, and other ventures will probably make the same mistakes slowing the development cycle. the XR Haptics working group I chair with Chris made incredible strides in only 6 months. It is frankly not even their fault. And it works!

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

This is becoming an increasingly visible trend as retailers like Walmart, Amazon, and CVS offer healthcare services such as blood tests, vaccinations, and medical check-ups that have traditionally been delivered by hospitals, clinics or doctors’ practices.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Read on for a recap of the major developments that took place in 2018: Enterprises that made the news for using wearables: In 2018, major retailers got more serious about XR in hopes of competing with Amazon and improving the shopping experience. Walmart was very active, beginning with its acquisition of VR startup Spatialand in February.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

I don’t think there are any Humech robots in that story like the Scraper: The Rise of Cifer novel, which is available on Amazon. What informed your decision to start the series off with a novel, vs. telling the story in a visual medium such as a webcomic or a series of shorts? I wanted a well-known sci-fi author to help with the book.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

According to UK government statistics, motorcyclists were the most vulnerable transport group and were 50 times more likely to die in accidents than car drivers. Simple hand gestures also control the HUD to hide or display information.

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