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Power and Responsibility: Highlights from Microsoft Build

Tech Trends VR

We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what they should do,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his opening keynote at Build. Microsoft sees the “intelligent cloud” as the backbone of this revolution. Microsoft want to enable developers to reach customers in a multi-sense, multi-device way Click To Tweet.

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The Real Reasons For Big Tech Layoffs At Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon

Bernard Marr

Microsoft, which is reported to have laid off around 10,000 employees, practically simultaneously announced that it plans to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, the creators of the viral application ChatGPT. Together, four of the biggest tech companies – Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft – have cut 50,000 jobs.

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ARtillery Briefs, Episode 44: Wearables Pave the Way for AR

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O ne of the common rallying cries of the AR industry is that the technology’s use in ubiquitous smartphones makes it a strong forbear to AR’s eventual manifestation in glasses form. These dynamics and their impact on the AR industry’s growth are the focus of the latest report from AR Insider’s research arm, ARtillery Intelligence.

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Report: NVIDIA Forms Custom Chip Unit for Cloud Computing and More

Anand Tech

Nine unofficial sources across the industry confirmed to Reuters the existence of the division, but NVIDIA has remained tight-lipped, only discussing its 2022 announcement regarding implementation of its networking technologies into third-party solutions. And since Windows runs on Arm, NVIDIA has a shot at Microsoft.

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Can Wearables Set the Stage for AR Glasses? Part II

AR Insider

common AR industry sentiment is that the smartphone will pave the way for smart glasses. They ’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof their core businesses, where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. That includes Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Snap and others. Vertically Integrated.

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Will Wearables Pave the Way For AR?

AR Insider

But then a reborn industry sprouts from those ashes and grows at a realistic pace. Beyond consumer demand, tech giants are embracing wearables as they align with road maps and growth strategies. This was the same strategy that drove Google’s Android OS years ago. That’s where we now sit in spatial computing’s lifecycle.

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Led by Former Oculus Exec, Facebook’s New Cloud Gaming Service Paves the Way to VR Streaming

Road to VR

Cloud-based gaming has been seen by the industry at large as a way to make games more widely accessible by making them playable on less powerful hardware. For the purposes of our beta, that includes genres like sports, card, simulation, and strategy games.

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