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XR in Retail Case Study in Focus: Microsoft and Wu?rth

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The retail and ecommerce sectors are rapidly discovering the benefits of new and disruptive ways to enhance the shopping experience for today’s digitally-savvy consumers. rth began building its new strategy with the assistance of the Microsoft HoloLens headset, and the Microsoft partner network. With Microsoft, Wu?rth

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UK Start-Up Secures $3.4M To Bring AR To Retail Stores

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Dent Reality, a London-based start-up behind a pioneering AR platform, has raised £2.5m ($3.4m) in funding to expand its pioneering work across the retail sector. The team will expand to new stores and retailers, and open up the platform to new markets. To Bring AR To Retail Stores appeared first on VRScout.

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Reality Bytes: Apple, Microsoft & Best Buy

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This week on the Reality Bytes Microsoft ‘blocks’ blockchain technologies in Minecraft, Apple opens its Ultra Wideband chip (U1) to developers, and Best Buy plans to launch mini-retail stores. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Top XR Vendors Majoring on Retail and Ecommerce for 2022

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The extended reality environment is taking the retail and ecommerce landscape by storm. Offering a convenient way to provide consumers with product information, enhanced shopping experiences, and better customer service, XR is quickly becoming a table stakes part of the new digital retail space. Magic Leap.

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8 Insightful XR Retail and Ecommerce Case Studies to Read in 2022

XR Today - Virtual Reality

XR (Extended Reality) technology provides disruptive retailers with a unique way to engage and convert their audience, wherever they are. Implementing XR solutions into the retail and ecommerce environment opens a host of doors for business leaders. In 2021, the brand implemented a Varjo Aero VR headset into the retail environment.

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Metaverse and Investing – Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 2: Software and Infrastructure

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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AltspaceVR. Microsoft again, because some time ago they bought AltspaceVR , a VR social platform that was on the verge of bankruptcy. I won’t discuss this in detail, but I assure you that they are infinitely better than Zoom/ Meet/ Teams.

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Metaverse and Investing – Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 1: Hardware

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Microsoft, which apparently produces one of the best-performing augmented reality headsets on the market (HoloLens), is buying a video game production company Blizzard for a frightening amount of money: 68 billion dollars. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AR Headsets. There was no marketable product at the time of the acquisition.

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