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Amazon Targets Google, Meta Ad Spending with AR Shopping Update

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Amazon has recently introduced several new features for shoppers to find products from their mobile devices using augmented reality (AR) shopping technologies. Now, the new Find on Amazon function allows people to take photos. Users can ‘share’ the photo with the Amazon Shopping app to locate the item in its marketplace.

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Making A Metaverse That Matters book review

The Ghost Howls

The book subtitle is “From Snow Crash & Second Life to a virtual world worth fighting for” : I mention it because it exactly describes what is the theme behind the book. In case you want to read the book, too, you can find it on Amazon: [link] (the link is without affiliation, so you can trust the honesty of my review).

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Could the 2020s Be the Decade When AR Glasses Replace the Smartphone?

ARPost

AR glasses are expected to be the next most trending pieces of tech in infotainment over the next decade. A trend such as AR glasses and scenarios which create its adoption in infotainment give us future insight into how this new technology can translate. The gradual sequence of trends suggests an ongoing demand for increased mobility.

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Unlocking the Magic of XR With Your Voice

Tech Trends VR

Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo and the global voice and speech recognition market size is estimated to reach USD 31.82 Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo Click To Tweet. billion by 2025.

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Snap & TikTok

AR Insider

The Venice VR virtual world, designed by VRrOOm within VRChat, will be the Venice VR Expanded hub—a virtual version of Venice. Users on Quest can visit these worlds, too. Ball is a former Amazon strategy executive turned investor. It’s available to anyone with a VRChat account.

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Spatial Beats: Apple, Huawei & Virtuix

AR Insider

The lower-cost locomotion option, Cybershoes , is now on Amazon for $349. Together with cyberchair and cybercarpet (included), Cybershoes allows gamers to walk and run in virtual reality. Users wear overshoes with ball bearings in the soles and run on a hard plastic dish. The player is held in place by a rigid harness.

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AWE EU 2022 Is Headed for Lisbon

ARPost

Among others, Wong will be joined on the panel by Zilliqa Head of Metaverse and NFTs Sandra Helou representing the Metapolis virtual world. Other big companies include HTC Vive , HaptX , Niantic , and Amazon. ARPost readers may remember Helou from when she took the time to talk with us earlier this year.

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