article thumbnail

Report: TikTok Parent Lays Off Hundreds at VR Subsidiary Pico Interactive, Tencent Scraps VR Plans

Road to VR

Seen a direct competitor to Meta Quest 2, Pico 4 still isn’t officially sold in the US; the headset is currently only available across Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and most countries in Europe. This follows a widening trend of layoffs which have affected nearly every big name in tech, including Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Malaysia 362
article thumbnail

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. Microsoft also laid off 11,000 workers across its operations, leading to the subsequent shuttering of its AltspaceVR metaverse platform.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Aims to Train 100,000 Developers this Year

VRWorld

National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Science and Technology, at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and at institutes of higher learning such as Temasek Polytechnic Singapore and India Institute of Technology, Bombay.

article thumbnail

All In On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big With Artificial Intelligence

Bernard Marr

Mittal told me, "There's been a lot written around the science and technology of AI, and a lot of articles and news stories about how tech-native companies, whether its Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Nvidia … are using AI. Unfortunately, not a lot has been written about how traditional companies have adopted AI.