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UK Start-Up Secures $3.4M To Bring AR To Retail Stores

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Dent Reality, a London-based start-up behind a pioneering AR platform, has raised £2.5m ($3.4m) in funding to expand its pioneering work across the retail sector. The team will expand to new stores and retailers, and open up the platform to new markets. Some really exciting AR news – we @DentReality have raised $3.4m

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Reality Bytes: Apple, Microsoft & Best Buy

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This week on the Reality Bytes Microsoft ‘blocks’ blockchain technologies in Minecraft, Apple opens its Ultra Wideband chip (U1) to developers, and Best Buy plans to launch mini-retail stores. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Top XR Vendors Majoring on Retail and Ecommerce for 2022

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The extended reality environment is taking the retail and ecommerce landscape by storm. Offering a convenient way to provide consumers with product information, enhanced shopping experiences, and better customer service, XR is quickly becoming a table stakes part of the new digital retail space. Magic Leap.

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Metaverse and Investing – Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 2: Software and Infrastructure

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Or AR applications that can be easily customized by those who do not have the money to make their own. There are and will be games for PCs, consoles, mobile devices, VR, and AR. And then there are the “tools” with which all of the above will have to be created, modeled, written, and programmed.

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8 Insightful XR Retail and Ecommerce Case Studies to Read in 2022

XR Today - Virtual Reality

As digital technology and innovations continue to shape the world, in-person interactions are quickly being replaced by hybrid or virtual experiences. XR (Extended Reality) technology provides disruptive retailers with a unique way to engage and convert their audience, wherever they are. Microsoft and Wurth.

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Metaverse and Investing – Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 1: Hardware

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Microsoft, which apparently produces one of the best-performing augmented reality headsets on the market (HoloLens), is buying a video game production company Blizzard for a frightening amount of money: 68 billion dollars. See Also: Why We’re Not All Wearing AR/VR Headsets. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AR Headsets.

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What Will AR Do for Brand Marketing in 2021?

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W hat’s the state of AR as we enter 2021? We recently did just this with AR Insider partner Matt Maher for his view on AR growth drivers. As co-founder of digital agency and innovator M7 innovations , Maher is on the front lines of AR experience creation for brand clients like Panera and Chanel. Click To Tweet.

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