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How Can Businesses Prepare for Enterprise VR?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Even governments are turning to immersive platforms to showcase tourism, security, and travel opportunities. Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. The Dublin-based IT consultancy has outlined a Metaverse Continuum Group to facilitate digital transformations for businesses.

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$28 Million Ticket-Holder for Jeff Bezos’s Flight to Space Suddenly Has Something Better to Do

GizModo VR

The person who paid $28 million for a seat to the edge of space with billionaire Amazon magnate Jeff Bezos on one of his Blue Origin rockets has decided they have better things to do. Read more.

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

Tech Trends VR

His current position as Technical Fellow of the Windows and Devices Group enables him to maintain a hands-on approach to building the HoloLens and related Windows Mixed Reality software platform. In a career spanning more than 15 years as a developer for the company, he has been named as the primary inventor on more than 150 U.S.

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

ARPost

Companies are beginning to incorporate the technology into solutions across various industries, including healthcare, sports, education, tourism, and the automotive industry. For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds. IKEA Place app virtually arranges furniture in a customer’s interior.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month. Namakura says that choosing a character outside of your own identity can risk turning into what she calls “identity tourism.”>> Join this group of fantastic people by hitting the link below! HP has also been good in apologyzing for all this mess.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. We are seeing industry groups like Open AR Cloud campaigning for interoperability. Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.

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Reveries on The Future of VR

VRScout

We’ve seen this kind of thing play out already in music (transition from CDs to digital downloads to streaming) and in television (Netflix’s annual investment in content dwarfs its next closest traditional cable competitor and Amazon isn’t far behind). Underlying our ability to flexibly cooperate is our ability to communicate.

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