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Meta Faces FTC Buyout Block, First-Ever Sales Fall

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The news comes after the FTC launched an anticompetitive case in January against the metaverse tech giant, along with representatives from North Carolina, New York, and Tennessee. The claim cited complaints from numerous XR software developers that Meta’s software updates blocked third-party coders from optimising apps on Quest devices.

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Teens' Scheme to Takeover Twitter Handles Ends With Tragic Death in Swatting Incident

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According to the station, an underage extortionist going after the “@Tennessee” Twitter account placed a false 9-11 report (“swatting”) of a shooting at the home of 60-year-old handle owner Mark… Read more. A troll conspiracy to capture a generic Twitter handle has resulted in death, Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN has reported.

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Y-12 National Security Complex and HaptX partner to advance U.S. Government training missions

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The newly constructed Oak Ridge Enhanced Technology and Training Center (ORETTC) in Tennessee trains those responsible for safeguarding nuclear and radioactive material as well as first responders and other experts in nuclear operations, safeguards, cyber, and emergency response. National Nuclear Security Administration.

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How and Why Brand Engagement Is Driving XR Development

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When we talked to MVP last year, the company had just worked on the AR layer of a mural in Nashville Tennessee. However, while the hardware and the market develops for more entertaining applications, companies like those discussed above are pioneering the software for those experiences. Waystar AR experience – MVP Interactive.

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Instagram’s Kevin Systrom Talks Virtual Reality

VRWorld

The name of the project came through Kevin’s love for Bourbon and other spirits, mostly from Kentucky, Alabama and Tennessee. Systrom also said that his first idea didn’t worked out. Instagram came out of a project called Burbn. Today, this social media platform has over 400 million active users.

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Fan edits are the internet's love language

Mashable VR

Mia Rutledge, a 20-year-old student in Tennessee, runs a popular edit account on TikTok dedicated to the K-pop group Stray Kids. I tried using other software, but it was too time consuming to try to figure them out," she says. "I I watched a lot of tutorials to figure out all the effects on CapCut."

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Can the Industrial Metaverse, XR Build Future Smart Cities?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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