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Reality Bytes: Apple, Amazon & GM

AR Insider

We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Amazon Halo, choice picks from WWDC and GM Cruise’s new self-driving conquest. Amazon Halo uses a smartphone’s camera + machine learning to ‘rate’ your posture and recommends a personal fitness plan to fix it. More from AR Insider….

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Artificial Intelligence In Space: The Amazing Ways Machine Learning Is Helping To Unravel The Mysteries Of The Universe

Bernard Marr

Because of this, astronauts, scientists, and others whose job it is to chart and explore the final frontier are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) to tackle the everyday and extraordinary challenges they face. Thanks to this, NASA has so far avoided the accidental loss of another Rover, as happened with Spirit in 2011.

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Unity Hires Dr. Danny Lange away from Uber to be VP of AI and Machine Learning

Cats and VR

Danny Lange as VP of AI and Machine Learning. He joins from Uber, where he was head of machine learning. At Uber, Lange led the efforts to build the world’s most versatile Machine Learning platform to support Uber’s hyper growth.

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New Amazon Alexa feature will creepily mimic dead loved one's voices

Mashable VR

Your dead loved ones are never really gone, they're just trapped inside Amazon's voice-assisted devices. A spokesperson said in an email this is something Amazon has been exploring based on recent advancements in TTS (text-to-speech) technology. SEE ALSO: Amazon lets anyone answer Alexa questions. Trolls are loving it.

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Snap, Amazon Expand In-App AR eCommerce after Snap Lens Fest

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Amazon confirmed on Tuesday that it would partner with Snap to trial online shopping via the popular messaging app service. Snap’s service will continue these integrations by allowing users to shop directly using Amazon from its social media platform. per share at closing.

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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

ARPost

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. They’re a hardware and camera heavy company and are hiring for engineers with optical and imaging experience and software engineers who have experience with machine learning and mobile devices.

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Terrifying VR Living Room Shows How Smart Devices Are Manipulating Us

VRScout

Computers, voice assistants, smart TVs; all tools utilized on a day-to-day basis by major corporations such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook in order to mine private user data and manipulate consumer behavior. This is where we first learned of the underground robot invasion that’s secretly been underway for years.