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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. This is made increasingly more likely by the fact that Microsoft is releasing its own VR solutions later in the year. As I said, terrifying.

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Can the Industrial Metaverse, XR Build Future Smart Cities?

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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. For software, they were working with startup companies like Microsoft and Adobe. It was like the light bulb went off.

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