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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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Accenture Faces 19,000 Layoffs amid Tech Turmoil

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The news comes amid a massive wave of layoffs across the tech industry, with Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, and many others launching a second round of job cuts. ” The news comes after Accenture invested heavily in its Metaverse Continuum Group last year. percent at the same time.

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

Tech Trends VR

Kipman started his professional career at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, right after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2001. 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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Dive into women's history with these 5 free online resources

Mashable VR

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. National Women's History Museum Feeling as if Washington D.C.'s

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How autonomous vehicles and hyperloop are scooting along

TechCrunch VR

Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need to innovate to survive. Industry pundits like the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) would argue that Waymo is leading the pack on unlocking the promise of autonomous technology. Cyrus Radfar. Contributor. Cyrus Radfar is the founding partner at V1 Worldwide.

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XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

I’m actually one of the founding members of the Open Air Cloud Group and Kronos Group is is really kind of trying to pull together these standards for 3D, as well for e-commerce. I know there’s a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it’s a dog’s breakfast.

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XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

I’m actually one of the founding members of the Open Air Cloud Group and Kronos Group is is really kind of trying to pull together these standards for 3D, as well for e-commerce. I know there’s a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it’s a dog’s breakfast.