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Do you want to buy an HP Reverb G2 VR headset? I’m also giving away three free VR headsets.

Hypergrid Business

If you’re in the western Massachusetts area, and want to meet up, I can give you a free VR headset. If you’re around Western Massachusetts, we can meet up in some local coffee shop, and you can just have it. Google Daydream View Google Daydream This is one of those headsets that you put a phone into.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

70s : Group of researchers at different organizations, such as NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina, continued research in computer graphics and virtual reality (Krevelen, 2010). 2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake. Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez.

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

TechCrunch VR

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. Virginia and West Virginia.

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I tried the Apple Vision Pro and saw the future, but don’t buy it yet

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Maria Korolov at the Apple store in Holyoke, Massachusetts. However, Samsung dropped its Gear VR project, and Google stopped developing its Cardboard and Daydream View platforms. A few years ago, I traded my iPhone for an Android because Samsung released the Gear VR headset and Apple didn’t have anything similar in the pipeline.

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Will Generative AI Help Us Solve The Climate Crisis (Or Will It Make It Worse)?

Bernard Marr

ChatGPT (And Friends) Are Energy Guzzlers Back in 2019, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst decided to look into the carbon footprint of large AI models – of the sort that power today’s tools like ChatGPT. Plus, we’ll look at how the new technology may actually help us solve or mitigate the climate crisis.

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

Basically, if the metaverse is the new internet, then everyone wants to be the new Google - holding the keys to the huge amounts of money to be made from selling advertising there. Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse.

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Nokia Announces Speech-Based AI Network Management Tools

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According to the company, UNEXT draws inspiration from UNIX, the groundbreaking operating system (OS) Bell Labs invented in the 1960s with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and General Electric (GE). Through international collaboration with experts & academia, we will be able to safely harness the power of AI.

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