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AT&T and NBA Launch Mobile AR Experience via Chicago Bulls App

Next Reality AR

The Chicago Bulls may not be very relevant in the current NBA standings, but they do lead the league in one other area. With an assist from Nexus Studios, AT&T has debuted StatsZone, an augmented reality experience that presents game statistics in an immersive format, in the Chicago Bulls app.

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Chicago Teachers Locked Out of Digital Classrooms Amid Omicron Surge

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Chicago Public School teachers attempting to teach students remotely on Wednesday discovered they’d been locked out of their digital classrooms, an apparent effort by city officials to prevent a return to remote education amid recent spikes in covid-19 cases among students and teachers. Read more.

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Google Makes Case for ARCore Apps to Educators & Marketers

Next Reality AR

When it comes to mass adoption, augmented reality is still primarily a mobile world, so Google is pitching its own ARCore flavor of mobile AR to the education and marketing segments. For hardware, Google is urging administrators to opt for the Acer Chromebook Tab 10, the first tablet running Chrome OS and designed for schools, over the iPad.

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Remote-controlled mobile vending machine comes to you

Mashable VR

The company behind other remote-controlled devices unveiled the concept Friday with plans to roll out in NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, San Diego, Santa Cruz, CA, and South Carolina and Missouri, along with London in the coming months. The cost to partners using the mobile machine is Tortoise's 10 percent cut of all sales.

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Philip K. Dick-inspired VR Story ‘The Great C’ Now Available on Mobile VR

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Dick inspired VR experience, The Great C (2018) , to Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. The 37-minute sci-fi adventure experience is now available for $6 across all platforms, including versions available on Steam (Vive, Rift) and the Oculus Store (Rift, Go, Gear VR), and Google Play ( Daydream ). The post Philip K.

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NYT Uses AR To Compare The World’s Most Polluted Air With Your City’s

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You can also explore the particulate concentrations of cities such as Chicago, Shenzhen, Rio de Janeiro, and many others. The particulate pollution reached 200 µg/m3, which is considered “very unhealthy”. Image Credit: NYT New Delhi.

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Uber Explore adds reservations, activities to the ride-hailing app

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But instead of having to search Google or Yelp, you won't have to leave the Uber app for it. cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis-St. Another button is coming to the Uber app home screen: Uber Explore. You can also just go wherever Uber is offering discounts for the ride, up to $10 off.