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Reality Bytes: Amazon Echo, Boston Dynamics & Spin Scooters

AR Insider

We continue the narrative this week with the latest in automation: rotating Echo speakers, Boston Dynamics’ self-charging, and streamlining electric scooters. Boston Dynamics is breaking tech barriers again by creating a ‘go and sit on a charger’ function for Spot, their enterprise robot dog.

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Alaska Airlines Begins Testing VR As First Class Entertainment

VRScout

The VR trial flights – which are being tested on 10 flights between Boston and Seattle, as well as Boston and San Diego – are the result of a partnership between Alaska Airlines and SkyLights, along with support from 20 th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and EIM.

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Business Leaders Still Aren’t Prepared For The AI Revolution

Bernard Marr

Even tech giants like Google or Amazon, I would argue, have found themselves caught off-guard. Likewise, Amazon wasn’t the first online store, but it pioneered personalized recommendations, next-day infrastructure and the online marketplace, reimaging the entire business of retail from top to bottom.

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Hype Or Reality: Will AI Really Solve Climate Change?

Bernard Marr

According to its report , “the technology is already being used to send natural disaster alerts in Japan, monitor deforestation in the Amazon, and design greener smart cities in China.” Google’s chief sustainability officer, Kate Brandt, has said, “AI has a really major role in addressing climate change.”

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How autonomous vehicles and hyperloop are scooting along

TechCrunch VR

Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need to innovate to survive. Industry pundits like the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) would argue that Waymo is leading the pack on unlocking the promise of autonomous technology. Cyrus Radfar. Contributor. Cyrus Radfar is the founding partner at V1 Worldwide.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

AR Insider

8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. While Cognitive3D’s example is demonstrating what happens when a computer can see what a user is doing in space.

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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld’s Hrish Lotlikar

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: Yeah, it was the Amazon Prime show, Jack Something Or Other. Evelin ended up running TechStars in Boston and now runs a venture capital fund called One Way Ventures, funding immigrant entrepreneurs, and Olga’s in parliament now in Ukraine. Did you see the one they did with– I think it was South By Southwest.

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