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OpenSim active users hit all-time-high for the holidays

Hypergrid Business

The team will continue to build for Apple Vision Pro and other immersive VR devices in the future once the mobile app is complete and shows traction. The three oldest grids in OpenSim that are still active today are OSgrid , founded in 2007, 3rd Rock Grid , founded in 2008, and AnSky , founded in 2009. The rest can win in-game tokens.

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

Tech Trends VR

Current industry trends appear to support his statement – such as the shift towards voice search with digital assistants like Cortana from Microsoft, Siri from Apple and Alexa from Amazon. Consumers may one day be talking and gesturing to holographic “ghosts”, while the smartphone becomes a spectre of the past.

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7Invensun is a Chinese company that wants to disrupt the VR eye tracking sector

The Ghost Howls

It is mostly unknown here in the West because its target market is mostly the one of its home country, but actually, it’s working on eye tracking since 2009 , so it has a deep expertise with this technology. As you know, in the west, SMI (M&A by Apple) was an advanced eye-tracking company before. We already have that!

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Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

XR for Business Podcast

We started in 2009 before really headsets were hitting the market. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 billion products for sale on Amazon. We finally got WebAR working, and then Apple shut down the cameras, and I was like, “what?”

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Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

XR for Business Podcast

We started in 2009 before really headsets were hitting the market. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 billion products for sale on Amazon. We finally got WebAR working, and then Apple shut down the cameras, and I was like, “what?”

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. If I was Google and Apple, I would make some sort of Pokémon Go game that took you inside and made you kind of chase these things up and down the walls, and while they 3D map the whole interior space of everywhere.

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5 best audiobook apps so you can listen to your books on the go

Mashable VR

Credit: Screenshot / Apple. Today, Audible, now owned by Amazon , is the United States' largest audiobook producer and retailer. When you're signed in with your Amazon account you can enjoy cross-device listening with "Whispersync.". Currently, Amazon Prime members get any two titles free with an Audible Premium Plus trial.

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