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Amazon Targets Google, Meta Ad Spending with AR Shopping Update

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Amazon has recently introduced several new features for shoppers to find products from their mobile devices using augmented reality (AR) shopping technologies. Now, the new Find on Amazon function allows people to take photos. Users can ‘share’ the photo with the Amazon Shopping app to locate the item in its marketplace.

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Alaska Airlines Begins Testing VR As First Class Entertainment

VRScout

The VR trial flights – which are being tested on 10 flights between Boston and Seattle, as well as Boston and San Diego – are the result of a partnership between Alaska Airlines and SkyLights, along with support from 20 th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and EIM. Their answer?

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Atari to Open Game-themed Hotels Across the US with “the latest in VR and AR”

Road to VR

.” The move comes as a part of a recently announced deal with GSD Group, an innovation and strategy agency, which will see game-themed Atari Hotels come to several cities across the United States. Additional hotels planned in Las Vegas, Denver, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, and San Jose.

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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 05/07/17

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Give it a go and you can check out Lego Batman, the Amazon rain-forest, and more. And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group , complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in the world of VR. Price: Free. Recommendation: Give it a go. Price: $9.99.

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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For The Week Of 05/07/17

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in the world of VR. Soar over treetops and plunge into rivers around the Amazon and learn of one of the planet’s greatest and most beautiful treasures.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

In addition to Netflix, HBO, and YouTube, Daydream also has the Hulu VR and Google Play Movies & TV apps – making Google Daydream’s video content quite impressive (as a sidenote, when is Amazon going to release a VR viewing app to stream their flat content???). MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY. Your data plan will thank you.

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Project Caliper: the journey of prototyping optimal controllers for VR

The Ghost Howls

Becoming a licensee gave me access to the SteamVR Tracking HDK and Steam SDK, which also contained the original 2016 SteamVR training course documentation which was run for a couple of years in conjunction with Valve partner Synapse in Seattle. This training course cost about $3,000 and was mandatory for anyone wanting to use SteamVR.