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Why Data Is The Lifeblood Of Modern Organizations

Bernard Marr

The self-driving cars being developed by (among many others) Tesla, Google and Baidu rely on machine learning to navigate from point to point while avoiding hazards and ensuring passengers and other road users remain safe. And the factor that is common to both of them is that they are powered by data. Why data is essential.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Facebook has not done well in the past in guaranteeing user privacy and I’m afraid of what it can do with my data, especially when in the future there will be eye tracking, emotion tracking and such. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. More info (Firefox Realities update) More info (Google Chrome 79). Join VRX Webinar.

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Developing The Most In-Demand Skills For The Future Of Work

Bernard Marr

Vastly complex neural networks and access to petabytes of real-time data mean computers are capable of carrying out increasingly complex tasks from categorizing images online to translating between languages to navigating a car to its destination. Consider the impact of machine learning, for example.

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Nothing New: HTC Exec Slams Apple’s Vision Pro’s ‘Pricey’ XR Headset

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

HTC Vive has been doing it for a while” He later quotes D an O’Brien, President, Americas, HTC , stating use case data from the Taoyuan-based firm. Though the Vision Pro’s spatial computing design — which seems to make science fiction very real — seems new, even to the VR world, it’s really not.

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Are The Metaverse And Web3 Still Relevant?

Bernard Marr

A year or two back, a Google search for the term "metaverse" would bring up pages of stories about companies making a move into virtual worlds. Usually, this operates via blockchain – a distributed ledger technology that uses cryptographic keys to securely synchronize data across many different machines and servers.

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The State of the XR Marketplace, with XR Intelligence’s Kathryn Bloxham

XR for Business Podcast

I’m going to be speaking at your VRX conference — we’ll talk about that, and all the great things — and you also host a number of really informational webinars. So we do the webinars, industry surveys and reports, as well as three events throughout the year across the US and Europe. So we’ll get into that.

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Web3 And The Future Of Music

Bernard Marr

This means that rather than us all logging onto services and applications that are for the most part owned by huge corporations like Google, Facebook or Microsoft, we will, for the first time, fully own and be in control of our own data and how it is used. But how is this relevant to the world of music? The Limits of Unlimited Music.