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

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

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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.

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Samsung Gear 360 Now On Sale In UK For £349.00

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Last month we reported that the Samsung’s Gear 360 camera became available in New Zealand, adding to the short list of countries, Korea and Singapore, where the Gear 360 was sold. If you need a Gear 360 right now, you can buy an international version for $449 on Amazon. Pricing will most likely come closer to $500 USD.

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When Can I Buy Samsung’s Gear 360 Camera?

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On April 29th, I was surprised to see that Samsung began selling the Gear 360 in Korea and Singapore. At the time of writing this, stock in Singapore is no longer available, but Korea is not only still selling the Gear 360 for around $335 USD, but they are also selling a bundle with the Gear VR for close to $420 USD.

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ARuVR Earns LPI Accredition for XR Learning Technologies

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This includes the company’s long list of clients: Coca-Cola, British Telecom (BT), ScotRail, Amazon, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Five Guys, and the Royal Air Force. Subsequent Asian and European AWE Summits will take place in Singapore and Vienna, Austria, from 30 to 31 August, and 24 to 25 October, respectively.

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Accenture Faces 19,000 Layoffs amid Tech Turmoil

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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 consultancy firm also launched extended reality (XR) projects in Singapore’s Changi Airport in a strategic partnership in August last year.

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

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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.