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Report: TikTok Parent Lays Off Hundreds at VR Subsidiary Pico Interactive, Tencent Scraps VR Plans

Road to VR

Seen a direct competitor to Meta Quest 2, Pico 4 still isn’t officially sold in the US; the headset is currently only available across Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and most countries in Europe. This follows a widening trend of layoffs which have affected nearly every big name in tech, including Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.

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Virtual Reality in Retail: Types, Use Cases and Real Business Benefits

ARVR

Virtual reality in the retail industry delivers simulations to shoppers and retail workers through special hardware (headsets) and software (3D applications). The solution features multiple department stores based in Malaysia and even a virtual cinema. It is meant to be used with Google Cardboard?—?one

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) What are the software and hardware platform used by HADO? teams for Japan. Emoji and the poo emoji in your messages is partially my fault.