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New Quest 3 Mixed Reality Features Leak, amidst Allegations of Biometric Data Misuse

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Zuckerberg in Count Over Biometric Data Misuse In other news, Meta’s CEO lands in court over an ongoing case covering the firm’s misuse of users’ biometric data. For its AR smart glasses, the Ray-Ban product tracks data surrounding a user, such as brands and signs, to enable virtual assistance services.

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Facebook Spent Over $88M This Year on Oculus’ Seattle Area Satellite HQ

Road to VR

Oculus has been on quite the hiring spree as of late, with over a hundred positions currently advertised on the company’s career website aimed at bringing hardware and software engineers into the Seattle area. The post Facebook Spent Over $88M This Year on Oculus’ Seattle Area Satellite HQ appeared first on Road to VR.

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Ransomware Gang Says Its Selling Data from Cyberattack That California DMV Warned About

GizModo VR

A ransomware gang called “Cuba” claims to be selling off data on the dark web belonging to Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS), a Seattle-based financial services and data management firm that suffered a bad ransomware attack in early February. Read more.

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Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?

Robert Scoble

I’ve listened to EVERY analyst and NONE except for Wood’s talks about the data the car is collecting. She says that the data leads Tesla to doing Robotaxis, which will be highly profitable. She’s right, but that’s only one possible business that Tesla can build off of this new real-time data.

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Foursquare Enters the Audio AR Game

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For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. The app taps Foursquare’s rich foundation of location data as content (and geo-triggers) for Audio AR experiences. T he augmented reality subsector known as audio AR has a new player: Foursquare. Secret Service.

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Oculus Hiring Spree Suggests Facebook is Accelerating VR/AR Plans

Road to VR

The number of openings has spiked significantly since November, data collected from the last 20 months by Road to VR shows. Data collected by Road to VR. The spike comes at the end of 2017 and into the New Year. Oculus’ clear room for nanofabrication | Image courtesy Oculus.

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Alaska Airlines Begins Testing VR As First Class Entertainment

VRScout

The VR trial flights – which are being tested on 10 flights between Boston and Seattle, as well as Boston and San Diego – are the result of a partnership between Alaska Airlines and SkyLights, along with support from 20 th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and EIM.

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