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OSgrid wiping its database on March 21: You have five weeks to save your stuff

Hypergrid Business

It was founded in 2007, meaning that there’s 18 years’ worth of accumulated stuff in the databases. “Kitely has been up since March 2011 and has never suffered asset server or inventory loss,” he said, pointing to the grid’s cloud-based system using Amazon S3 and CloudFront services.

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Rift S Globally Out of Stock Prior to ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Launch, Here’s Your Alternatives

Road to VR

Come March 23rd, Valve’s continuation of the Half-Life series is set to launch on all SteamVR-compatible headsets, breaking a 13-year gap between Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (2007) and the upcoming HL2 prequel Half-Life: Alyx. Check out our Rift S review here for more. HTC Vive Comos & Cosmos Elite.

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Amazon's Kindle will finally support epub files

Mashable VR

You know how every other ebook reader under the sun supports EPUB files, but Amazon's Kindle stubbornly refuses to do so? Amazon quietly updated its help documentation (via Goodreader ) to state that Kindle devices will start supporting EPUB files. Well, that's changing. There's a catch, though. EPUB) format," says the document.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

He talks about Mass Effect, an open-world game that was really groundbreaking when it first came out in 2007. To give a bit of context, voice-based assistants have been around for over 60 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they picked up popular use with the introduction of smart home devices such as Google Home, and Amazon Echo. “It’s

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. Amazon is also attacking augmented reality from different angles.

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What Does Tech History Tell Us About AR’s Future?

AR Insider

We often forget that when the iPhone came out in 2007, high penetration levels didn’t happen until about three years later. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. Collectively, where does this all point?

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Discovery Grid moves from OpenSim to O3DE alternative

Hypergrid Business

O3DE initially began as Amazon Lumberyard , built on top of the CryEngine game platform technology. Amazon donated the project to the Linux Foundation in 2021, and O3DE became fully open sourced, with an Apache license. Back in 2007, Second Life users figured out how the viewer communicated with back-end servers. What is O3DE?