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Amazon Pulls the Plug on Kindle in China

GizModo VR

Amazon has become the latest big tech company to scale back its ambitions in the Chinese market, announcing Thursday that it would stop shipping its Kindle e-reader there and shutter its ebook store in the country in 2023. The company closed its ecommerce business there in 2019. Read more.

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3 Ways Generative AI Is Making Our World A Better Place

Bernard Marr

Project Gutenberg – the oldest digital library of ebooks, established in 1971 – collaborated with Microsoft to turn 5,000 books into free audiobooks, all narrated by AI-generated (but human-sounding) voices using text-to-speech technology.

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How Will Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses Square Up with Rivals?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

With Qualcomm’s industry-leading Snapdragon Spaces platform , Xiaomi can also develop programmes on OpenXR and Microsoft’s MRTK toolkit. These allow users to swipe virtual pages in manuals and eBooks, exit apps, navigate maps, and other controls.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.17): Big tech companies’ battle for talents, PSVR 2 still not confirmed for 2022, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta. The same has happened with Apple, which is now offering bonuses to employees to keep them inside the company.

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Review: Onda OBook 20 Plus Dual OS Tablet

VRWorld

However, at a price of $180, this might be an ideal gift to a relative which is not tech savvy and wants a simple Facebook / Browsing / YouTube / eBooks / eComics machine. To summarize, this product is not the one that will take the fight to Skylake-based champions, such as the Microsoft Surface Pro. drive, a keyboard and a mouse.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. This announcement is not sus, it is just great. Apple is entering the XR field, and Facebook is currently dominating the VR market.

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