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

Mashable VR

Uber has a lot of data on where you've gone and eaten (through Uber Eats), so it'll start with recommendations based on your Uber history. cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis-St. All your payment info from ride-hailing can be used for buying tickets and entrance fees. Snag a cheaper ride there.

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The Curious Relationship Between DVDs and VR

VR Playhouse

If this fact isn’t enough to convince you of the terrifying speed at which ideas and technology move, here’s another: A hundred years ago, the first supermarket was opened in Memphis, Tennessee. If you take a quick look at the data, you might be tempted to draw some interesting conclusions. As I said, terrifying.

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Can the Industrial Metaverse, XR Build Future Smart Cities?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

My mom [who recently experimented with the Meta Quest 2] started to understand this because she was in the form of an avatar in this app, looking at her hometown of Ireland while sitting here in Memphis, Tennessee. We’re giving them the opportunity to use the tools and to start to look at data differently.

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