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Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Following last week’s theme of layoffs across the tech sector, this week continues the unemployment trend as influential groups reassess the space and US Courts aim at Google. Recently, Microsoft entered an extended partnership with OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, to expand the tech solution to business clients.

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Are Apple’s AR Glasses Hiding in Plain Sight?

AR Insider

All of which matches up with the thought that Apple is planning a small, lightweight product—one that lives up to the term “wearable” by being more like smart glasses instead of an unwieldy Microsoft HoloLens. “But the StarBoard stuff presents exactly that: a Google Cardboard sort of functionality for iPhones.

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ISC 2017 is over, what did you miss?

VRWorld

After all, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft – all use liquid cooled data centers. All in all, a good warm up for the SC 2017, which will be held later this year in Denver, Colorado. The post ISC 2017 is over, what did you miss? appeared first on VR World.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Holographic waveguide optics have seen several recent entries into their ranks: TruLife Optics and WaveOptics, both of the UK, and most recently Akonia Holographics of Colorado. Near-eye Optics Basics.

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The Top Five Web3 Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

” The vision here is to create an internet that isn’t controlled by huge corporations like Google GOOG and Facebook that set most of the rules about what we can and can’t do online today. Also this year, Colorado became the first state to officially accept cryptocurrency as payment for taxes and state fees. Outside of the U.S.,

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How Are US Regulators Affecting Big Tech’s XR Plans?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The United States (US) Justice Department launched a lawsuit against Google’s parent company Alphabet on Tuesday, reports revealed. According to the lawsuit, Google earns roughly 80 percent of its earnings from advertising. According to the lawsuit, Google earns roughly 80 percent of its earnings from advertising.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

He’s currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Media X program at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Institute Center. Alan: I couldn’t agree more, to be honest.