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XR Talks: What Will 5G Do For AR?

AR Insider

“The big web-scale players like Google or Amazon [don’t] have data centers every 300 kilometers. In fact, historical evidence tells us that in a similar time frame, we went from 2G brick phones circa 2000 to the iPhone 3G in 2008. But the phone companies do have that distributed network.” And that changed everything.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part IV: Bose

AR Insider

After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. Think of it like primitive iPhone apps circa 2008, before we got Waze, Foursquare and Uber. Head Start. But what’s everyone else doing? The question, like with others, is how are hearables aligned with its plan to future proof its core business?

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Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Right

ARVR

Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 2. Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video | Hulu Did you know the first virtual reality headset was created over 50 years ago? Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 4.

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

AR Insider

And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. Sometimes we forget that this cycle took a few years. “We

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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. What is O3DE? It even used a different programming language and architecture. But then something bad happened.

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

AR Insider

And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. Sometimes we forget that this cycle took a few years. “We

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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch VR

I’ve been searching for an intuitive foundation-shade-finder tool since launching Cult Beauty in 2008, and nothing has lived up to the experience of having a professional match you in daylight until I discovered MIME,” says Alexia Inge, founder of Cult Beauty.

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