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5 best audiobook apps so you can listen to your books on the go

Mashable VR

Credit: Screenshot / Apple. Audible is available for download on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Credit: Audiobooks / Apple. Audiobooks.com is available for download on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Credit: Screenshot / Apple. Credit: Screenshot / Apple. Audiobooks.com.

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Everything-As-A-Service: Why All Brands Must Consider Subscription Models

Bernard Marr

Apple is a great example of a company that has transitioned from a straightforward product manufacturer to a subscription-based business – via services like Apple News, Apple TV, and Apple Music. The “as a service” revolution. As a service” is now the go-to business model for software and computing providers.

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How Will Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses Square Up with Rivals?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

These allow users to swipe virtual pages in manuals and eBooks, exit apps, navigate maps, and other controls. Additionally, Apple followed suit by redirecting efforts to their long-awaited, premium-tier MR headset and subsequent mid-range consumer MR device.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.17): Big tech companies’ battle for talents, PSVR 2 still not confirmed for 2022, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The same has happened with Apple, which is now offering bonuses to employees to keep them inside the company. Meta is well-known for having performed some key acquisitions related to hardware, but also to software (e.g. Apple may have delays for its headset. Apart from talents, the other sector in which Meta & Co.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.31): UE5 released in Early Access, Lumus shows an impressive AR prototype, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Youtuber Eric For President has twitted some days ago that “September is the VR hardware you want”.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple is entering the XR field, and Facebook is currently dominating the VR market. It makes sense for Samsung, which is great in manufacturing hardware, to partner with Microsoft , that is doing a good job in creating a platform for XR, to compete with the other companies. Apple headset may be very lightweight.

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