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Saudi Arabia Wants to Build This Bizarre City Dubbed 'The Line'

GizModo VR

Saudi Arabia is developing a new city, 150-stories tall and built from scratch, that will serve as a semi-enclosed environment where people can live and work without ever stepping foot outside. And while the promotional videos released Monday are likely an attempt to give the development a utopian feel that recalls so… Read more.

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Amazon Selling ‘Oculus Certified’ Refurbished Quest 2 with $50 Discount & Extra Warranty

Road to VR

Oculus quietly began selling officially refurbished Quest 2 units earlier this month and now Amazon is offering them with an even more generous one-year warranty. Now Amazon appears to be offering the same refurbished units, ‘certified by Oculus’, at the same price but with an even more generous warranty.

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Caregility Opens XR Solution at Saudi’s Seha Virtual Hospital

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

These include Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Saudi Arabia, UAE Lead MENA Region in XR Telehealth The news comes as the Saudi and Dubai governments aim to cement positions as top tech hubs in the region and worldwide.

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My Professional Highlights of 2019

VirtualiTeach

I spoke at a lot of conferences in 2019 but as the year came to a close, I was invited to fly to Saudi Arabia and deliver the closing keynote to a group of G20 delegates visiting King Faisal School in Riyadh. Amazon links to both are below –. TeachingLand on Amazon. Reality Bytes on Amazon Chris Long’s Virtual Memorial.

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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. HTT will be building a 10 km track to connect Abu Dhabi to Al Ain and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Cyrus Radfar. Contributor. Cyrus Radfar is the founding partner at V1 Worldwide. More posts by this contributor.

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Apple Vision Pro Second Impressions: The Digital Crown Tunes Your Reality

Upload VR

Saudi Arabia-owned Magic Leap took $500+ million more from the "sovereign" investment arm of the state to continue developing its technologies for transparent optical AR. A few researchers at Meta, and maybe Google or Amazon, are likely waiting for those exact same benchmarks. Microsoft formally killed its PC VR platform.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Amazon Prime has a series coming up called Good Omens, which is about angels and devils among us in the days before the apocalypse. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. Charlie: They’re taking the Amazon route. Alan: Do you think that… Charlie: Amazon is basically still not profitable.

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